Laugh...sorry, when I connect the switch to the router and then reboot both of them the lights on router's ethernet ports would flash quickly and never be able to hold solid and so i wasn't able to connect to the internet at all (hence it's not working)

The only thing I know about my IP addressing scheme is that I have a static IP address assigned b/c I'm also running a MS XChange server here. I got in touch with my tech guy yesterday who set it up for me (he moved, so I'm trying to figure out as much as I can on my own and only call in case of emergency!) and he thinks its a bad switch as well...so I'm off to the store today and if it doesn't work with the second one, I'll be back...