yes it is seen as a network connections folder and what do you mean by

"Thirdly...is your Internet Explorer setup to use a proxy to connect to the Internet?"

Sorry im new to this (yes im a complete noob). also i downloaded all the new modules from this website and put them in my archive folder and when i recycled it did nothing (apparently it should auto download) so i tried installing the litestep(70) (originally tried litestep omar) and said a rc file is missing :( this totally suck