Well after trying everything I could possibly think of I've still had no luck so I tried one last thing - switched to Linux. Dusting off my old Gentoo64 server, I had the source compiled within 5 minutes and was connected to the server in under 10.
Linux 1 Windows 0.
Sorry that this is no help to anyone stuck with a Windows box. I'll keep plugging away at the problem slow time and update this thread if I come up with anything.
Cheers
EQFAN
