No I didn't but I get my IP via DHCP, so it could change (although it hasn't in along time).

The problem now ( to change boats in mid-stream) is it started to work after I changed the Guntella listen port to the one I had forwarded. HOWEVER my wife's Windows XP machine also on the router could no longer connect to the internet after it started to work on my machine. Weird because I made no changes to the port forwarding screen for her machine??? Rebooting her machine (My Gawd Windows takes a long time to boot) did not solve the problem.

I don't use a software firewell.