Vista - applications communicate via TCP/IP

So, I purchased G-Force a visualization software package. It installed fine but it will not let me load up the tool bar.
The company told me to make sure my Firewall or other programs were not blocking the tool bar from linking to the main program.
I set my firewall to use the tool bar and went through and even disabled a couple of things temporarily to see it I could get them to comunicate.
I am sure there is a simple solution to this and just cannot find the right spot under control panel or any of my other safety software to set anything different.
Could it be that Vista is not recognizing that I set the firewall to allow the tool bar to link?
I get funny things happening from time to time on this machine.
Such as tool bar not hiding and other little annoyances. Then they seem to start working again later.
I run updated purchased protection software and System Mechanic and still cannot find anywhere to get these two programs to work together.
Can someone tell me where I am missing a link/menu to set the software to allow this communication via TCP/IP to get the programs to run together.
Thank you,
Rick

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