claiming to be Dragos, <dragos.delcea@farmexim.ro> said: > hello, > it seems you are right; I got it wrong first time, and the only thing that > resolved the issue was starting again (along with a reformat) As it happens, I was about to try a reformat soon anyway =] The thing that initially *caused* the problem was trying to enter the mirror URL while (and I didn't know this at the time) someone had killed my NAT box =[ Thanks people for your help, Michael