Have it sorted out gents ..I will keep XP as an OS.
This took 5 weeks and about 4hrs of phone time.....
My ISP was not compatable with XP. The tech swore it was and it was windows that was the problem. When i got the "senior" tech on the phone he said "your version will not work with XP!" took 10min to fix ....all earthlink users call and make sure you have latest version!...you must have ver.5.07a.....PC and OFP are one again