> > I'm back to the functional internet access now, and it will stay up. I still have the other two problems, though.
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> Well, as a workaround (not really a solution, but a step up from where you are), I'd suggest that you set winipcfg to run automatically at startup to prevent you from having to do it manually.
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> It strikes me as odd that Windows won't let you delete that file. I would recommend deleting it from DOS, then, if you're sure you want to delete it - bear in mind that you may have to remove some attributes from it before you can get away with that.

I should have updated before bed last night--I did get the file deleted, and I did do it from DOS. My program still doesn't work, though, with exactly the same problem as before, so now I assume that the Win98 DLL wasn't actually giving me any trouble, and it is something else entirely. *sigh*

Don "Thanks for the suggestion, even if I did beat you to it. :-)" Monkey