A small update. My brothers friend who is quite handy with computers stopped by and managed to fix that initial problem. The next snag I've hit is my computer won't recognize my LAN set up. We think it's a drivers issue (I didn't install my drivers because he said the ones from the given disc were crap basically and initially caused my computer problems) I installed the updated drivers from their website, unfortunately they don't have a nice install feature so I'm lost on how to actually get them installed on my computer.