ok, i've browsed the forum and I can't find any solution to my problem, and I'm thinking it might be because it's a more unique problem.

Everybody seems to have the conection problems, but I have no reason to not be able to connect. I was told my fuirewall was bloaking the connecting, so, i turned off the firewall completely. It still shows the picture at the bottom of the world with the wall in front of it. There is no reason for LW to think it's being blocked. In my ZoneAlarm, all of LW is checked off as trusted and allowed. Which, shouldn't even matter, because the firewall's off. I've tried the proxy server and that didnt work. I've reinstalled, deleted preferences, and nothing's worked.

It all started when it said I needed to download "Java". So, I did. Since then, it won't connect. No problems before, then all of a sudden it needed Java. I don't get it.

Please help.