I stopped sweating once I let it all out

Don't worry man.. I ain't gonna hurt someone trying to help. The threadjackers confused the issue. I THINK the listening port thing was for the other yahoo who had an issue.
I don't know if we're saying the same thing.. but my issue is that when I attempt to start LW, I get a message that states that my firewall is blocking it. I can't access any functions of any kind. Once it tells me that, LW closes, so any changes I need to make will be outside of LW itself.

As to the Brand and Model # of my router.. Ummmm.. to be honest I don't remember.. I installed it well over a year ago and it's currently on the back side of the computer buried behind my modem. It'd take some serious contortions to get the number offa there. This is a relatively new problem and had been using LW just fine with that router and I hadn't changed any configurations with it.

Ok.. going to do the Java thing and/or the dummy user / options trick and see what happens.. I'll get back to you. I'll also do the listening ports thing as after re-reading the thread, it WAS directed at me and I missed it for the aforementioned reason.

Thank you Birdy!