well i was following the instructions but in the part where it says go to advanced tab and vertual server mine looks differnt than that of the screen shot. probibly becuase my friend already set it up. but i want to go through the directions all the way and so i want to get to the screen in the screen shot. so in the home tab i clicked run wizard(this screen in shown in that link too) and i was going along to make my static ip and then i had to enter some values and it says
Enter in the static IP information provided to you by your ISP.
but i dont know what my isp is, or what that even is. by the way ive deleted the prefrence folder like you said i also followed some other instructions, but i wasnt exactly sure i was doing it right but nothing happened anyway.