LOL. Thanks. I don't need to include it though, when I tell my program what to write to the connection? I'm kind of stalled right now because I'm just learning VB, and my connection is pinging out, but I am getting "NOTICE Auth:*** Found your hostname", so the small amount of data that I am writing is apparently being written correctly. I guess me pinging out (because I can't figure out how to correctly reply to the ping in VB) is like the politician having a short attention span!
By the way, if anyone here knows Visual Basic and is willing to help, you can stop by my server. I'll make sure you get credit for helping.