Also you have to make sure you've gotten everything in cygwin at the time of the install, I know the devel stuff [gcc & co] don't come in by default and I'm sure there's some other things.

As far as traceroute, I've always had problems from Unix and Linux machines within my network due to the router. A lot of routers made 'for home' aren't usually properly handling traceroute [I know some Linksys and DLinks that don't].

But well don't give up!

cheers!