A: I know it because of the ZoneAlarm Firewall. It warns exactly that. Apache.exe wants to connect to the internet, the ip it wants that sometimes resolved to akamai. C: Yes. Many times. D: SELECT ... JOIN, the usual. E: All I have is US. I have 3 or 4 copies with diffeent setups though. Thanks again for your help and sorry to have bothered you on msn. But I realy need to get this working and I don't know what else to do.