Well I tried that and still no good. I uninstalled LW and reinstalled LW 2.5.5. Same problem. No connection. I try to force the connection with the connect button in files, but it doesn't work. My internet connection (cable ) is fine. I can navigate around in LW, just can't connect. Would the java issue I mentioned cause this? According to add/remove, I have Java 2 Runtime Environment se v 1.4.0_01 installed along with Java2 SDK,se v 1.4.0_01. ...You mentioned that I should have JRE instead of SDK. ...Why is that? Would that cause this? I installed SDK because I wanted a compiler program and that's what someone recommended. Think I should change it? Also, I'm not sure if this is coincidence or not, but my computer started freezing up after I just reinstalled LW2.5.5. It seems like anytime I opened LW, after a few minutes it froze and I had to cold reboot (reset button) and go through scandisk. I just uninstalled LW again and am not getting the freeze ups. So I don't know what's going on... Any advice? Thanks, Joe