I felt like an idiot, but Joel totally walked me thru resetting the router and modem and setting up the connection and he was awesome and I love him for being so patient and helping me out!!!
no more herky jerky internet connections! And no more scamming off the neighbor's intermittent and unreliable wireless connection!!! WOOOOOO!!!!
now all I need to do is figure out why the CD rom isn't opening up on the puter downstairs and we'll be golden all the way around!!!!
*does happy dance*