Ok, what you were saying about changing from NAT to bridged sounded like it might work. I changed to bridged networking but now I can't get my Red Hat Guest to connect to the internet. I have tried assigning my IP statically and that activated the eth0 but it wouldn't get on to the WWW. After that I tried letting DHCP take care of that for me automatically but when I type 'ifup eth0' it tells me that there is no link present?

Is this because I have to do something with my router in order for my guest OS to communticate with it?

Please shed some light on this, thanks.

edit: Problem solved- if anyone else stumbles across this thread with the same difficulty then do this...

Simply edit these files..
etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

type at the bottom of each,

check_link_down(){
return 1;
}

and then try to activate eth0 again and it should work. I don't really know why, I guess RH9 is a little buggy in that reguard? But anyway, thanks for the help Steve I should be able to get it to work now ^^