SDASWANI, you wanted to know how your 'jar' fix worked. It doesn't! I am hoping you will tap into your software engineer expertise once again in an additional attempt to resolve this problem.

Again, I downloaded the 'jar' file, deleted settings, and tried again to connect. No luck!

NOTE: There is a little red icon dot in the lower left corner of the page. I noted that, when I click on 'connect,' that light turns green for a fraction of a second, and immediately reverts back to red.

Are you any closer to finding a solution to this problem?