Tried to enter Qufim again and stuck, but i am able to walk thru fine on my laptop using the same router and same settings. I have set a static ip, forwarded ports to that ip, still on the one PC i can not enter Qufim.... meaning i can not finish abyssea.... wtf? I am getting a new HD and new copy of windows and reloading everything fresh with a new copy of FFXI ultimate and trying that.... i am convinced at this point there has to be some sort of corrupted file on my pc that the file check isn't picking up. we'll see what happens tomorrow.