LordNod, i appolagize. I am now at work and using a windows machine to browse the internet (which is like puking on a pile of shit btw) anyways my forum wasnt working for one of our machines here, but it was for the others! and if it did, it was all screwy looking, and bad. I *have* been using my mac too much lately. - here is a simple fix that worked for my machine:
first look for your ETC directory, in *nix it's usually just /etc in wondows XP its usually something redundant like:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC there i pasted mine.
now open your "HOSTS" file in notepad and ammend this line just under 127.0.0.1 localhost (er whatever..)
72.9.145.220 zombie.el.cx
then save and restart your browser. I appolagize for the inconvenience of my forum LordNod. thanks guys and i hope to see you there soon. - trev.