Well, finally bit the bullet and pulled the fully expired Trend Micro off this old Compaq 1700. Just fyi, it had a goodly grace period, but it finally shut down the D-Link wireless.

The prob of course was that ME is no longer supported by MS, Norton, McAfee, etc; and this laptop isn't worth the cost & drive overhead of an XP upgrade.

SO- thanks to some advice from guys here, I installed the tiny but informative Kerio 2.1.5 firewall (really like it so far); and then the free AVG 7.5...

At this point I expected the dLink software to be totally screwed up, as it had been refusing existing connections, bringing up the dreaded MS Network login, etc.

But here am I- the old connection auto found without even a stutter!

Only have one fuzzy Q, am downloading from SourceForge at the same time & its really slow (75K); is Satnite bad time to d/l; or is there a firewall tweak I need to use?