sorry about the double post

I made sure that i took win firewall off and kept nortons on .. i've config'd to permit limewire through done that a few hours ago. and thank you for the sp2 fix however, it doesnt seem to have done a things difference.

A qstn of yours that has got me a lil curious though is 'Did you change your modem/router during all the upheaval ?' what do you mean?? I'm not too sure if i have actually..

I've got a Speedtouch536 adsl modem and when checking the configuration on it (by clicking http://10.0.0.138) i noticed in the intrusion detection part the only port that had any such intrusion was that of udp_null_port in which it stated 23 intrusions compared to the others of none. ... I don't know if this helps you in helping me.. but it was just something i noticed.