Fine, fabion. I don wan to give up, though, in my 03/13/05 post above, I expressed sense of having resigned! I read a number of posts and found a huge number of lads having left the threads without being able to resolve their issues. I am looking for solution, still, to run LW on LAN connection in office. To repost some basic info:

1. My OS is Windows XP
2. I have the latest Java..1.5 or whatever
3. LW works on my laptop when I run with dial up connexion, but no connexion on LAN
4. Currently SP2 is removed & I have no Norton or any other Internet Firewall that I know of.
5. LOR's test page was success even @ work
6. My internet connexions for IE & FF work with Proxy settings for HTTP at office
7. I have used alternate proxies suggested in earlier posts but, nothing.. (What I haven't done is> in the Tools>Internet Options>LAN Settings>Use Proxy, I still have my work IP address.., should use the alternative proxy details??? This may prevent other applications at office in intranet from working?)
8. I now have LW 4.8.1