Well, it's an unfortunate thing that Sygate for some reason has kept giving me problems even though I've completely repartitioned/rebuilt my machine (two partitions, C&D, C with 10 gb and D with 30gb roughly, windows on C, everything else installed on D). Those lost clusters with the debug and tray logs kept happening even though nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary and once again, I got a canned response from them (although it was much better than ZA's response to my mutex/mail/etc email).

So what I'm going to do is pound the crap out of Agnitum's Outpost and see what we have.
Hopefully I can get a firewall that A: won't cause my machine to crap out at the most inconvenient times, B: won't have glaring holes still in it (shame shame ZA), and C: allows VPN without too much trouble.