I seem to have a problem with the app not completing its operation. I installed it a week or so ago and the installation seemed to go OK and the app seems to be running, either in screen saver mode or as background process. However . . .

The main screen shows "Receiving x of y bytes from server".
It then says "Primary task executing". The Task Run TIme counter counts off the seconds.
The display then immediately recycles to "Receiving x of y bytes . . " and goes through another primary task.
The Task Execution Progress continually shows 0%.
Total points and Total run time statistics are always 0, both locally and on your server.

It seems that I may not be sending the task results back to the server, but I don't really know what I should be seeing.

My installation is:
DSL line (Verizon which blocks port 80 incoming and a few others)
Westell B90 modem
SMC Barricade NAT/Firewall/Router
Win98
ZoneAlarm v5.5
McAfee VirusScan v5.21

In ZoneAlarm, the World Community Grid Agent is given permission to access both the local network and the Internet.

Does the client need any ports to be open?

Does it act as a server?

What sequence of messages should I be seeing in the client?

Is there any confirmtion of task completion and/or results being returned?

Any suggestions on what I should be looking for?

tia
John