I finally got some rest after my Zone Alarm hassle which by the way thanks to you was able to rectify. I am using the free, registered, updated version (for non-commercial use), and by your words of encouragement several days ago decided to attempt tweaking it to run on this site. I was informed previously to try Black Ice Firewall which am told does work with (asp). The only way I discovered ZA was my problem as I was unable to post or upload here only, I had to shut it off, which left me exposed that day for a few moments. As a result, in that short time, I picked up a slew of Spy-bot cookies. Seeing the unusual activity on my hard drive, I just shut down. I then spent the day removing them, scanning for trojans and viruses and am happy to say that we are clean.
However, I feel I may have inadvertently snubbed you by not addressing your encouraging reply. If so, I apologize and I thank you for your help.
Sincerely, jake11