ya, there is a wall in front of the world.. i have that on my home computer too, but it works fine.. i'm sure there is more going on that i know of.. i just figured if there was a firewall, that LW wouldnt even be able to connect.. its just weird that every single file i try to DL comes up corrupted.. i'll see if i can get one of our network guys on the phone about this.. LW worked fine for a while until our network was updated a couple months ago.. i'm sure its some setting thats preventing the complete download.. thanks for the reply..