It is sad because I LOVE Perl. I don't want to admit that there is anything it can't do on any machine I run .Net on ;-). I don't run a firewall at all (XPs firewall is such a pain I don't even use it). Maybe I should just take the code and try running it on some other machines (using ActiveState's PDK). Perhaps it will work on the final target system just fine. That would be interesting. I'll try that tomorrow and post a note to let you know what happens.

On a depressing note I almost have the a VB .Net solution working already. It kind of makes me sad.