Hi longjohn, could you detail what is happening a bit more please. I'm having some difficulty understanding your problem. Are you talking about visiting the forum or opening LW? If you've deleted your LW preferences (which is one solution to connection/dwnld problems) then you'll probably need to go thru the process of setting them up again. That's no real big issue. But you shouldn't need to do it everytime you open LW. Always make sure you press BOTH the 'Apply' & 'OK' buttons before leaving the LW Options/Prefs window.