You are right! I disabled the firewall and the download manager worked.
Next time I will try to experiment to see which executable is calling home so
I can reconfigure the firewall instead of disabling it.
Note to LavaSoft Folks: Maybe it's just my computer, software, or slow
internet connection, but I thought that the download manager was a bit
touchy. Even once I got it going, Task Manager showed it going to
"not responding" status twice before succeeding on the third try.
regards to all,
ED