no firewall but firewall detected? and slow?

[cvtexas]

I have the current version of LW, and until today was on dialup internet access. I now have DSL and it's working fine on all respects.

However, started LW and it shows firewall, when there is no firewall at all. I even disabled all popup, spyware, adware software. Still shows firewall.

In addition, I tried to download and is seems no faster than when I was on dialup. In fact, one sample took longer than it would have for the same type/size file before I went to dsl.

Windows XP, 384meg memory, only ONE download attempted at a time, DSL (the "slow" 768 version) but verifying average of 705.

Stopping, starting, restarting, rebooting, none have even once removed the "detected firewall" icon.

Any suggestions would be great. I am a bit disappointed in this....I was almost ready to purchase 'pro' but now I wonder if there is any point. I noticed someone else was actually SLOWER with pro? wow.

cv