It feels like success
I bought a Netgear DSL Gateway Router today and that seems to have fixed my problem with getting my computer on the Internet. I had tried a few work arounds in an attempt to avoid any additional cost, but I just kept hitting the wall. Thankfully I found a nice router for $65 or so with tax and it has a $10 rebate, so I feel pretty good about that.
It seems to be working pretty well, it's not blazing fast, but it's better than dial up by a long shot. I've gotten pretty spoiled by the LAN connection at work, they have some pretty serious bandwidth at that place. The aggrivating thing is that I can't get into the Exchange server via Web Access thinngy, I have a suspicion that Beavis and Butthead forgot to turn it back on when they applied SP3 today :clap