HOOAH!!!!!
To All those who assisted (or tried to assist) Thankyou!
I belive this will be the last entery for this post as the problem of connecting to the internet through a router has at last been solved!
It took some doing but after uninstalling, re-installing uninstalling and re-installing time and time again...to no avail I finally stumbled on the culpret.
I have this nifty little NVIDIA Network Test Utility that I've used in the recent past to test the connection. It would always "FAIL" when it came to the "LINK" test. I didn't make the connection to the note it had at the bottem until now.
It advised "Link test failure: Ensure that the cable is good by trying with a different known good cable. If the cable is good and the link still fails to come up, then the recommendation is to make sure that the autonegotiation configuration for the PC's Ethernet adapter matches that of the other device to which the PC is attached."
I took this to mean set the "Speed & Duplex settings" to "AUTONEGOTIATION". Well, on a whim I changed that setting from "auto negotiate" to "100Mps Full Duplex" and IMMEDIATLY the connection was recognized and the COMP went on-line! (I knew it had to be a setting of some sort somewhere, things like this don't just change by them selves.)
here's proof
IPCONFIG Dialog through router:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\ty>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c935:56c7:216b:5b09%12
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.102
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.1
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e50:1862:270f:3f57:f099
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::1862:270f:3f57:f099%8
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
C:\Users\ty>
Again all, thanks for your input and I hope this info helps anyone else out there with a similar situation.