Bizarre; my net connection kept dropping out last night and I was worried it might be my service provider – but it wasn’t – MSN Messenger’s troubleshooter managed to track down the true source of my problem (and I only activated it by mistake, meaning to press “close” when that window popped up). Something to do with my DNS server not being able to allocate IP addresses, presumably due to some configuration glitch on my machine.

How strange! It would have to be Halloween when MS gets stuff like this right!