HI LW, Im a girl, so im really not up too scratch with all this computer jargon, but I have tried everything that you metion to get connected, I did the ports thing turned off firewalls and so on the only thing i hadnt tried is deleting the directories, coz I didnt understand what u were taking about, but ive managed to work it out and deleted directory and LW connected straight away, thankyou for being so patient, anyone else who is on win xp should try it, coz it works. Thank you, halleluia, praise the lord!