You are awesome! I have been banging my head against the wall for MONTHS - i've poured over the registry and verified the settigns were correct at least 50 times, I thought I was crazy! Sure enough, I too had settings enabled in group policy, i removed them, did a gpupdate and literally it started right up. It synced correctly to my sources. Why is it human nature to always overlook the simple obvious things? Thank you again!