Yeah I'd check the router settings if I were you. If you cant figure it out quickly, you should try and map port 443 (standard https port) to the ip of the machine where you wanna test it on, or put...

Did you look into the availability of firmware updates for that particulair cdrw drive?

Give regedt32.exe (is standard installed on 2k and xp) a try, see if you can acces that particular key now.

Installed recently new router, firewall software or something similar? Cause these sites usually make use of https which can cause it not to work if you havent configured above software properly.

The Mysqld should have its basic DB 'mysql' installed to work properly.
If your working from a windows based os, Mysql has an easy to use admin client which enables you to create databases add...