Okay I have since removed Norton w/out any help. I was still unable to access any type of https connections. Since I have tried everything I could think of, with some suggestions here, I decided to start from scratch. So I killed it all. Since everything I need is backed up to the T on a removable drive.

My question is this however. https = port 443 correct? http = 80 or depending 8080 correct? If I was able to access anything that wasn't https even after norton was completley removed. What happened? What could I have done instead of a reformat? Which BTW wasn't all bad. Windows needs a reformat everynow and again. It seems to get bloated over time. I just forgot how annoying XP was out of the box. Like messenger service for example.

Thanks to all that helped.