thanks for the info.

Somebody had hired an "expert" to help that office with PC matters and he seems to have done nothing, or perhaps confused matters worse...

I'm going to clean these branch-office clients up...I really only have one server on the network right now, and I believe that is running as a DNS server, ((although I really have no idea how that gets updated info from the internet tying domain names with given IP addresses...))

The whole network is tied together with point-to-point T-1s making my server, the central Hub of the entire network. Its good because I only need to manage only one firewall.

Anyway, I'll have the clients look to the server's IP address 1st for DNS, and then use something else as a secondary DNS...

I've only got 50 or so clients total. Its a small network, but I'm only now getting my hands around some of the small branch offices which seem to have their computers configured pretty willy nilly...