Acquiring Network Address Nightmare! Help Me! Please! Please!

[Al Mirpuri]

I secured my wirless network by adding a WPA-PSK then I got a 'acquiring network address' message that would eventually go without making the connection to the wireless. I am using a HP Pavilion with XP SP2 on it using a Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN. The router is a Wireless ADSL Firewall Router DG834G.

I trouble shooted this using a plethora of tips found googling the problem. It is not a DHCP issue, nor a mistyping of the shared secret (Key), I typed the laptop mac address onto the router's web page, I even tried deleting a few windows components. In the end I did a system restore, and unsecured it and resecured the connection but now the 'acquiring network address' message no longer appears but the wireless connection does not...connect.

I have tried all the obvious answers and spent a half day on it with little by way of results.

Does anyone have an answer?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.