Hi

I won't jump in on your other thread because that may slow up getting an answer from L6, but I sense you are an increasingly desperate man.  You certainly have a stubborn and very odd problem.  I can't promise any fixes, but given you are getting nowhere fast, I think in your shoes I'd be wanting to clear the system of any reference to any Line 6 devices whatsoever.   You have a search for the proverbial needle in a haystack on your hands IMO - unless someone else has the answer to your problem which is looking quite slim

The problem is that when you remove software and drivers, a lot of references can get left in the registry, but I think that might be where you need to go to fully clean out any old references to web servers that don't appear to exist.   I would guess that when we update Monkey, it uninstalls the old version and replaces it with the new version, but certain configuration settings may get left behind and perpetuated by the new version - if that makes sense.  A lot of other software updates work this way, so i would expect that Monkey does too.

I know for certain that both Monkey 1.31 and 1.32 work with the FBV in Vista 64 and Vista 32 and you know for sure that your hardware is fine as you've made it all work elsewhere.  The problem just has to be with your particular computer and with what's installed on it, but the $64000 question is what is getting in the way?

I notice you use FireFox as your Web browser.  This is not normally problematic, but it just may be worth changing your default browser back to IE temporarily to see whether that might do the trick

I think the only thing you can do is to back up all your valuable data and emails to an external HDD as a safety precaution and then to strip out ALL Line 6 software, drivers.  I would also strip out any unnecessary applications using Programs and Features from the Control Panel and run MSCONFIG to prevent stuff loading with Windows.  Then I'd run a Registry Cleaner (be careful here  because many so-called registry cleaners are no more than malware).  FWIW I use a program called Registry Mechanic but CCleaner is another one that's pretty popular.  This last step should get rid of any orphaned links to drivers etc.... but you may still find that there are traces left behind, so you may need to manually run REGEDIT and search the registry for anything relevant. 

Then try reinstalling Monkey etc... with fingers and everything else crossed.

You need to make sure you have everything backed up for obvious reasons, and in fact if you want to make that process easy, you can make a full backup of your hard drive using a free piece of software called DriveImage XML, and as you do so you should create a bootable BartPE CD with the DriveImage XML plugin so that you can restore the image to your computer's hard drive should things really go badly wrong. 

It goes without saying that when you get to the stage of manually modifying the registry, things are pretty desperate, so IF (and I appreciate it's a BIG 'IF') you decide to take this route through sheer frustration and desperation, you should also be totally prepared for the very real possibility that you may bork your current installation of Windows completely and that you'll need to do a complete reinstallation of your whole system.  In your shoes, I would probably have reached a decision to do exactly that a couple of weeks ago.  I work with computer systems for a living, and whilst it is always worth trying to resolve an issue without having to go to extreme lengths by spending an hour or two, there is a point at which it simply becomes uneconomical or nigh on impossible to achieve the desired result without taking drastic action. 

Another thought is for not too much money, you could buy another hard drive, install it in your PC and set up a completely clean Windows installation whilst retaining your existing setup on the existing drive which would be disconnected whilst you did all this, making it easy to plug it back in and run normally whilst you take your time getting a clean system running and before copying your data over..

I do realise that reinstalling a complete system from scratch is very time consuming and not a decision to take lightly, but let's face it you must have already wasted many hours on this and you are no further ahead, so it's worth consideration although I appreciate that the suggestion is probably going down like a lead balloon with you as you read this response.

I really hope you can get an answer that works for you from someone else, but if not good luck anyway

Nick