FreeMan - 2007-03-02

I posted this in under Tracker/Support Rerquests, then thought I should put it here.  I apologize for the cross-posting, but I'm pretty new to posting on SF, and was unsure of where to put it.

When I launch Softsqueeze, the player comes up and shows:

Please wait,
Connecting to Slim Server.

Nothing else ever happens.

Situation:
Work machine: WinXPPro SP2 & latest patches
Home Machine: WinXPPro SP@ & fairly recent patching
Home network behind LinkSys WRT54G. Router is opened for slim.exe on ports 9000 & 3483 routed to the home machine running slimserver
SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 11206 - Windows XP - EN - cp1252
Perl Version: 5.8.8 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt
Softsqueeze v3.3

I've launched softsqueeze from within the slimserver browser window & from
a quick launch icon - neither works.

I launched it from home on the server machine - it worked fine.

I can connect to the slimserver with windows media player & control the
playlist with the browser - that works fine.

I did not attempt to connect from another machine within the home network
via softsqueeze to slimserver - I will try that this weekend.

Any tips, trick or suggestions to get past this basic stage would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks and keep up the great work,
FreeMan