Hey, like, dude...maybe you have a firewall set up? Try dude's proxy server setup, but, try downloading ZoneAlarm,
( www.zonelabs.com )
and opening the ports needed for your machine to communicate. Actually, ZoneAlarm does a pretty decent job of doing it FOR you, requesting whether you want a certain program to act as a server/client, etc. but anyway, what do i know?

Shinmatai

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