To my embaressment, I've found that if you set the Internet settings of ZoneAlarm to "medium", and give netrek full privileges, a netrek client works fine after all. I've heard a couple of other players agree with me that ZoneAlarm caused them problems with netrek, so it might be a good idea anyway to add a subsection about ZoneAlarm (and any other off-the-download "firewall" products) to the relevant client documents/FAQs. -Dan / Charity