gawd. told ya i spoke too soon.
it just did it again.
and i just realized that tech-forums usercp login is cached to my pc.
so in internet explorer i diagnosed connection problems, came up with this:
"Windows has detected a problem with the Winsock provider catalog on this computer. This catalog allows programs to communicate with this computer across the network. Would you like windows to reset the catalog to the default configuration?
This computer might need to be restarted to restore network connectivity
[x] Yes
[ ] no
"
etc...
i click next and it asks to restart.
help?