it is getting better, things were a little bumpy at times, I have only a few users that are having issues because they are on AOL or the like and keep getting randomly assigned a bad IP, but I have been working with my end users and have managed to get the direct link working correctly. I'm still not sure if this is a vast improvement over my overly paranoid htaccess file I was using, but it does make controlling access much easier.

"No matter where you go, there you are."
"If you can't do something smart, Do something right"
"There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who can't"