ok, well I did the repair and I'm still being prompted with the Work Offline popup when I boot up but the repair deleted my dial up account and it wouldn't let me set up a new connection, when I go to set up my internet connection and choose manual set up I can't click on use dial up modem even though the 56k modem is installed and working properly, I can only use the broadband modem and I cant get broadband in my area .