Well, guys...

I am NOT at school or work. I am at home.

But I did figure out WTF happened to me at least!

I contracted a back-door trojan that messed up many a configureation with meh 1's and 0's.

The trojan was called BKDR_**PIGON.FS or something like that.

So after many formats to rid my HDD of this nasty b!tch, I was finally able to reinstall WinXP and Limewire/Morpheaus/etc and run them without a hitch.

I didn't know I was infected until three days ago AFTER a virus scanner update FFS.

Nothing likr having a keystroke logger/malware virus on your rig, I'll tell ya.

Good luck.