Hey Phish, I went ahead and did the same thing as you. I hope that this will fix any erroneous configuration glitches that may exist in my setup. I went to no-ip and set up a redirector. I also upgraded my router's firmware.

Oh btw, LinkSys rocks as far as I'm concerned! The firmware upgrade went totally flawless.

I'm gonna try out this new configuration and report back on my results.