Thanks. I quit and relauched LW with firewall completely disabled and attempted to search again. I've now got green bars and no wall! Some results have just come through. The LW interface, however, seems quite sluggish and some parts of it fail to appear until I run the mouse over those areas, if you no what I mean? Is there a fix/reason for this?

By the way, thanks for the link - I'll follow that up and configure my firewall. PT777