Hi CRT

as banmicrosofttoo said make sure your windows is up to date.

Once you sure it is updated completely, check to make sure TCP/IP is configured correctly.

After the most recent windows updates a week or 2 ago. It seems they managed to bugger up my TCP/IP settings, which I had to reconfigure.

Also check your dns cache settings they messed those up also.

Leave it to M$ to mess things up.

Also remember sp2 has a firewall, and it isn't good to run 2 firewalls at the same time, as they tend to conflict with each other.

You can find instructions on how these are supposed to be setup and configured in your windowsXP by going to start>help and support.