Just got done with a 1.5 hour call with MSN. There is apparantly a known glitch with MSN 8. If you upgrade from 7 to 8 on a machine running Windows XP, the machine may stop dialing out to the MSN server. It will dial the 800 number to get local access numbers, but not to the connection servers for internet access.

They do not know how to fix it. They do however have a workaround. (Pay attention kids, cause this is a hoot).

Create a new Windows XP account. That's it. They want you to create a new XP account and port over all of your stuff. Now if anyone out there knows of another way to rectify (he he he. Rectify) the situation, that would be good.

I'm going to call my client and tell her to get a real ISP now.

(hops of the soap box)