jonjimgreg (above) explained my problem precisely.
After running XoloX for about 10-25 minutes (straight after booting, before I run anything else), my cable connection freezes. Then I try IE5, Mozila, Yahoo messenger, Outlook and anything else I can think of. These and other programs run fine but they can't access the Internet. I don't typically have a problem with these programs if I haven't run XoloX previously. Note that rebooting isn't our problem, but is annoyingly the only solution so far. Can you please help find a better one? I'm betting we all use ZoneAlarm, if that helps. And I recently installed Download Accelorator Plus and WinHTTrack, though these programs aren't running, not even in the tray, when this problem crops up. Also note that disconnecting the data and power from my cable modem, then reconnecting them after 5 minutes doesn't help.

Thanks so much
Steve

P.S. my config = win98se / PIII800 / 256MB