Check which ports are open to the outside world. Helps make sure that your firewall rules are working as intended.
One of a set of tools we are providing to everyone as a way of saying thank you for being a part of the community.
Then it should work, (I'm running XP and Office 2003 SP3). The funny character output is a question mark in a weird character set on the first line (probably and XML creation error) but essentially it's what is in attached (HTML file). I've also included .jpg's of the output in Excel and the Error message for the weird character.
Bruce ee-files.zip