Vista - can't sign into live messenger... error 80040154?!?!?

i decided to uninstall and reinstall live messenger yesterday and ever since i have reinstalled it i cant sign in, i get error 80040154

i have also noticed that my browsers will not download files properly, it keeps saving them as binary files (firefox) that i can not open or does nothing at all (opera), also, my IE always says i am not connected at first even though i am connected through a wireless router, my windows updates also wont download so for some reason windows thinks im not connected even though i am, PLEASE help as i have spent all of yesterday trying to fix this, many thanks!!!

p.s. in messenger when i click on OPTIONS and then CONNECTION it says "you are currently not connected to the .NET messenger service" then underneath it says "you are connected to the internet through a wireless network connection", i have run the connection troubleshooter and it passes all the tests.

i'm using vista home edition

i have downloaded the MSXML3 and reinstalled it and it doesnt work, i have tried system restore and i also get an error with that now 0x81000109, im getting really fed up and annoyed now, something has happened to my windows and you have to be connected to do any updates so i cant do them either, please help?!?

can anyone please help, this is really annoying me, i've done the searches and tried everything but still not work, help would be much appreciated!!

anyone????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Microsoft Live messenger sucks, it really pissed me off, I got error
80040154, and nothing out there works online, I am using Vista x64 SP2
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