Thanks for the suggestions. I finally got a chance to try them. However, they didn't work. Since moving to XP I'm getting used to connecting before opening Opera but thought I'd give it another try.

Kind of ironic that my other networked comp can open Opera and this machine will connect right away..lol. So a round about answer would be to move my internal dialup DSL modem to the other machine.

Actually, now that I think about it, I could then load Linux on this machine for a dual boot.