OK, yes I know this is the wrong place for this topic. Sue me.
But this post rekindled my interest and so I did a full re-install on my computer of both EAW and OP, patched them (2036 and 2552 respectively) and downloaded & installed the client patch for the servers.... And I still get the 'You are behind a firewall...' message, even if I'm connected directly through dial-up with no hardware of software firewall.
What gives? ???
(For the record, both programs were still 'installed' previously, but I had just copied them from my old HDD to the new one without running the install program & they ran fine that way but wouldn't accept the client patch 'cause it couldn't find the registry info about 'em....)