Scousemouse, no-one is getting annoyed with you... Just that you didn't provide the full details in your initial posts..
A few questions..
Have you reset your wnr2000 to defualt and then rebooted your router and then PC (for that matter if your PC set to aquire an IP address automatically.
If yes then do a START+R ( or click start>>Run) and type CMD
then type
and cut/paste the result here and that will enable us to see if the router is being connected to or not