Vista - DSL has static IP's and no DHCP...it is PPPoE--plz help 1st post

Ok, after lurking and reading for hours I have solved some of my woes. I will do my best to describe the rest of them to you. What I am trying to do is reconnect my Xbox 360 to my PC. I had this working for three months(since I have had the 360), then, I had to do a clean install of Vista. Well, almost a clean install, I quess it is a re-install, because if left a lot of the stuff I already had, just cleaned out my email and such. Now, I can connect my 360, and the pc recognizes it when I am in WMP 11 and look at the media sharing. Here's the problem. I can either connect to Xbox Live or I can remove the network setting in the 360 and I can browse the files on my pc through the 360, but I can't do both like I could before. It's one or the other. I am using a Netopia 2240 dsl modem/router. I have not changed any settings in the router whatsoever. After I did a reinstall however, I could not access some SSL pages or recieve email( I could send ok, just not recieve). I fixed this by rolling back the driver for my Network card. The problem between the 360 and my pc existes only after the reinstall.
Heres something else, win I try and ping my router it times out. And, I cant access it through 192.168.1.1. When I use the cmd prompt and look at ip's, they are all static. Shouldn't I have dynamic? One last thing, when I click on my Broadband connection and click on details, next to dhcp, it says NO. However, on my LAN connection it says Yes???

PS- can someone tell me how to take a screen shot so I can post/better explain what I am doing.
Thanks so much for all the help.
John
Windows Vista x64 Ultimate

Sounds like the reinstall is conflicting with old registry values and old programs. To be honest I would do a complete clean install..not a reinstall. That way you have everything nice, fast and new. Hopefully you still have a backup of the programs you use most.
Drastic I know, but best in the long run. We could be going in circles with this one...soz.

Yeah, I had feared that would be the result...ugggh!!! That is what I will do then.....
Thanks Chris

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Hey Chris, after doing a little e-reading it seems as though the problem lies within the router. I cannot access the router in anyway shape or form. Also, the 360 uses it's own MAC address and the PC does to, you probably know this. I think there is confusion after I did the repair/install of Vista. I don't know if a clean install will fix this. Aren't MAC's burned into ROM? Check this article I found Xbox 360: You cannot connect an Xbox 360 console to more than one Media Center PC
thanks again....I am going to hold off on the clean install right now...
John

Hmm...cant access the router at all? What the make of you router? You really need to access the setup in your router in order to update any firmware or backup the settings. Do you still have the manual? If so have a look in there to try and get into the router settings...usually something like 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.10 in the browser and admin/admin or admin/password is the default username/pw.
I still suspect that the original settings are getting confused with the new reinstall settings..thats why its saying multiple connections and not letting you go further.
And yes they are hardwired but you wont have that on a clean install..gets rid of the old corrupt (now) settings. I know it happened to me..exactly the same thing with my 360 and PC. Clean install was all I could do to rectify it unfortunately.

No, I can't ping it or access with any IP's..... Can I get into my router any other way besides IE?
J

OK, clean install, same results.....I'm lost

Ok, for some reason, now it is working...I clicked to enable sharing on my Broadband connection. Don't know if that is helping. I will look into a few more things and report back.
J