ok, rolled back the version to the one on the disc that came with the SB, and ff is firing up. still not being seen on SB though!
cant see anythin obvious on the logfile: I know now that the router seems to be functional as the laptop is working a treat now.
Log file: firefly.log
2007-12-21 17:59:12 (ed287c29): Starting with debuglevel 5
2007-12-21 17:59:12 (ed287c29): Loaded plugin C:Program FilesFirefly Media Serverplugins/rsp.dll (rsp/svn-1359)
2007-12-21 17:59:12 (ed287c29): Loaded plugin C:Program FilesFirefly Media Serverplugins/w32-event.dll (w32-event/svn-1359)
2007-12-21 17:59:12 (ed287c29): Loaded plugin C:Program FilesFirefly Media Serverplugins/ssc-ffmpeg.dll (ssc-ffmpeg/svn-1359)
2007-12-21 17:59:12 (ed287c29): Loaded plugin C:Program FilesFirefly Media Serverplugins/ssc-wma.dll (ssc-wma/svn-1359)
2007-12-21 17:59:12 (ed287c29): Starting rendezvous daemon
2007-12-21 17:59:12 (ed287c29): Initializing database
2007-12-21 17:59:19 (ed287c29): Starting web server from C:Program FilesFirefly Media Serveradmin-root on port 9999
2007-12-21 17:59:19 (ed287c29): Listening on port 9999
2007-12-21 17:59:19 (ed287c29): Starting server thread
2007-12-21 17:59:19 (ed287c29): Registering rendezvous names
2007-12-21 17:59:19 (ed287c29): Registering Firefly Media Server as type (_daap._tcp) on port 9999
2007-12-21 17:59:19 (ed287c29): Registering Firefly Media Server as type (_http._tcp) on port 9999
2007-12-21 17:59:19 (21990797): select() returned -1 errno 0 An invalid argument was supplied.
2007-12-21 17:59:20 (ed287c29): Registering Firefly Media Server as type (_rsp._tcp) on port 9999
2007-12-21 17:59:20 (ed287c29): Serving 13384 songs. Startup complete in 8 seconds
2007-12-21 17:59:20 (ed287c29): Rescanning database