Win2000 TCP/IP failure

Greetings, I've run into a problem on my Win2k computer running IIS5 and PHP 404pl1. I've got a page set up to pull a page from CNN.com, parse it for headlines, and print the results in an organized table of links. Everything's been working fine since the beginning of January, but suddenly it dies with a PHP warning and my die() message: <PHP WARNING> Warning: fopen("http://www.cnn.com/desktop/content.html","r") - No error in _file_extract.php on line 5 <MY DIE() MESSAGE> Unable to open http://www.cnn.com/desktop/content.html The line that's generating the error looks like this: $file = fopen($url, "r") or die("Unable to open $url"); So I figured maybe something was up with my fopen()... but apparently not. I also have the same page connecting to the mysql server on localhost to request a list of my reminders & tasks that need to be done. However, connecting to the db server (on localhost) also dies with the following: <PHP WARNING> Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't create TCP/IP socket (10091) in basic_functions.php on line 9 <MY DIE() MESSAGE> Error: basic_functions.php:9 Unable to connect to database So now I'm completely stumped. I haven't changed anything as far as the scripting on the page goes. I've tried rebooting (seems a likely solution for windows, but it didn't work :/), I upgraded to the latest PHP (I had been running 403), and even using the ISAPI module instead of the CGI... My apologies if it's obvious and I'm just not seeing it. Any ideas? --Toby Butzon