hey guys,
thanks for the help fabion, ive already done that though. my computer has locked up since my last post, so now i've turned off windows firewall and it seems better. maybe this time itll work. once i did what i said in my last post lw ran much better, so im slowly making progress. after turning off windows firewall, i seem to get heaps of messages about blocked intrusion attempts, but these ones are red instead of yellow. it tells me norton has blocked an intrusion attempt. i think this is only happening because norton is blocking them instead of windows firewall. LW is running really well so far. dont wanna jinx myself though.

see ya guys,
kyle