GreyFool,

As far as I know my open ports allow in and out communication. I use Yahoo Messenger and it works off of port 8080....but I can't use others like ICQ, MSN, etc. because they use ports that are being blocked completely.
The closed ports block BOTH in and out communication. I know because I tried http://www.gnufrog.com to search for files on its site....and all results return links to servers using port 6346. Therefore, I can't download them.
I'm not that concerned about request, because it's unlikely I'll get many....but I would like to download things from time to time. Any ideas?

thanks,

Jim