Ok I've told you guys all the information I know but haven't gotten any help as of yet (been about 3 days). I'm kinda annoyed since LW hasn't been able to connect for a few weeks now. It makes no sense what so ever as absolutely NOTHING changed when it stopped connecting and I've tried everything I know. It pretty much totally ignores the huge path of holes I made just for it in my system to the internet.

In case someone out there can help me at at home with Windows XP a Shaw cable internet connection, a shaw firewall along with windows firewall, 1.40 GHz, 768MB of ram, the latest LW and Java, 37GB of space, (32.6GB used with the rest free) and I made sure that LW is made as an exception for everything.