You've been really helpful in your suggestions ... I will call my ISP today and get them to open all the ports. I rea;;y think it's something to do with my laptop and not the coonection. I've installed LW Pro on my home computer and it works fine. I use my laptop at home over my wireless connection and it doesn't work. I also tried directly connecting it through the ethernet cable - doesn't work. I've tried connecting at work (ethernet cable) and it doesn't work where others in the office have no problem connectiong to LW. So I have to believe it's not my ISP and it's something internally set wrong on my computer.

Like I said before ... I've deleted the preferances, have the latest Java installed, no firewall running, tried the "test" smaple page, tried manually entering diff. ports, etc. Nothings working. I really do think it's something with the computer not allowing this network to connect ... probably something very simple too.