[ran-o-matic]

Still trying to help. My PPC is at WM6.1 and I have Sprint's $15 Vision deal, so I don't use wifi much. Since you had the problem in WM5, looks like its not an OS issue anyway. I left mine at WM6.1 and configured my wifi. It is set to automatically connect to my access point using WEP and uses "The Internet" connection. I also never use Windows Live, so it took a minute to get it running. It let me authenticate using my msn.com email account, so that worked ok. It synced my email fine (oops - didn't really want that!). I did a live search for "bees" - it opened m.live.com and presented the results.

I tried switching the connection to "work" - The EVDO connection opens and the data is transferred via Sprint. Of course, if I disable the phone, I get the cannot connect pop-up. Do you have other connections?