You're right, it was SUPPOSED to be listening using TCP/IP but it wasn't even though it loaded the dll, hence my original problem. I tried everything I could come up with, including removing it restarting and adding it and restarting. Nothing at all worked. The only thing that I could find or do that did anything to change it was to install the service pack. My guess was a bad dll or something. I really don't know for sure. MS has a dirth of info on it, though I didn't explicitly look at what SP3a fixed, I only looked at what SP4beta fixed(which isn't out yet).