Sounds like those of you having difficulties with the firewall in XP need to find the "Preferences" area and set them. You might want to try one thing at a time and see how it works. Making a cluster of changes doesn't let you know which thing actually worked, if you have to go in and adjust it some more. I've been working on issues with my Symantec fire wall, (I use Win2000Pro on my computer) and yesterday for a while had it letting some JavaScript through that I wanted to see. It stopped again--so I'm not sure what I fixed then apparently un-fixed.

A firewall SHOULDN'T mess up your wireless connection. I have yet to go in and set up a password on mine--I will do that one of these days (hopefully before it gets hijacked by a passing laptop on the street).

SRS