Sir Firestorm (and everyone else,)
I sure was hoping this issue would resolve itself. The man (and woman) hours spent on this has proven expensive.
Firestorm: Have you reinstalled your nic driver? Do you have any other connection issues besides LimeWire?
I took back my HP and traded it for a Gateway. It's worse than the HP. The local Geek Squad is trying to tell me that I messed everything up by installing a network connection using a crossover cable. Funny, I read the manual and never saw the paragraph on how you must never create a network using a crossover cable. The network connection wizard even had a selection for a direct connect network.
For over a week, almost everytime I shut down the computer, it would reload without a nic. Just gone, poof! I would have to restore Windows to an earlier date. I'd have a connection then, but all the software I'd installed would have to be installed again. Norton finally refused to install at all. I'm stuck with Zone Alarm for the time being. I was finally able to reinstall the network card driver and things have been better on that front. I got to get into my email and sort through 48 messages.
I would reinstall my nic, Firestorm, even if you're connecting outside of LW. There's bound to be some corruption in there.
I got to finally reinstall the computer cleaner software and it had some fixing to do. Thanks Hopper for turning me on to that.
Well, for those in the U.S. hope you didn't eat too much turkey. I'm gearing up for the Friday sales, got my penny jar out and everything. Some of the stores open at 5 a.m. and there's a line around the block by 4. Crazy!
See you all around.