ok then......
after spending near all day trying to sort this,it's finally done!

thanks for the link efc.
though,that did'nt turn out to be the problem.
at least now though,all my devices all have their own static ip's,cheers.

i even installed PMS on my other laptop,that worked fine without having to do any port forwarding.

so,i decided to uninstall java 6 update and reinstalled it!

i think that that must have been the problem.

if not,it's working and that's all that matters.

thanks again efc.