Bball, did you know that XP has a built-in firewall? You have to make sure it's deactivated (or permits LW to connect) before you can try to actually connect.
T-Money, paying for Pro is highly probable that it won't solve your connection problems: the Pro version is only very subtly different from Basic (as stief says, it's more like a donation). If you can't get Basic to work with your configuration, then it's very likely that Pro won't do you any good. As pissedoff suggests, try dlding the latest java (make sure it's the latest and do a fresh reinstall, meaning that you have to trash LW's preferences (I'm not sure that that's how it's done on Windoze) then Uninstalling, redlding the installer and reinstalling the application.
See what happens and post back.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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