Well, I'm not very fluent in computers so I didn't do much...I updated windows this am, it dl'ed a few updates..everything was uneventful...

This afternoon when I went to try lw it wouldn't go past that little square window...then after a bit it said something to the effect that something was blocking lw from connecting to the internet, probably a firewall...the only firewall I have is a windows firewall from my windows xp..so I turned that off...no joy...

So, ruled out the firewall..one of the updates that windows did was something with UPnP...I don't know if that means anything but I just remember that being one of the updates..

So, I uninstalled and reinstalled lw and still no joy...my joy level was very low at this time as I just got dsl last week for my increased downloading pleasure, which I believed was going to be short lived..

So, reading this forum I read a post about someone that uninstalled and reinstalled lw and java and that did the trick. So, I went to java's site and it said that I didn't have the latest java so I upgraded...thats all I really did.

Viola!! I was having much more joy as my lw worked...

This forum was the only reason I'm back in action so I would really like to thank the person that posted that fix (can't remember his screename)..I hope this info can help someone else running into problems...Thanks again.

Steve