So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font, your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New Roman-- unless you change the style of display to Serif, in which case you won't see any Arial, but only Times New Roman (except in those instances where a webpage has embedded a particular font and uses that instead).
I don't think it exactly works like this.
If a web page specifically uses font family "Arial" then Arial will be used, if present, no matter what your font settings are.
(This is of course assuming that you don't have the "Always use my fonts" box ticked.)
If no font is specified by the website, it uses whatever you have chosen for your Proportional font (which as you point out is a "pointer" to one of the other choices).
I don't think it is used much, but I think using font family "sans", "sans-serif", etc, is encouraged on websites, and if a website was to specify this, then the font you have chosen in that dialog would be substituted in.
Daniel
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