Victory is Mine!

I've been banging my head against the wall recently, trying to get iTunes for Windows to connect properly to the CDDB and pull down the song titles of new albums. Firewall settings, iTunes settings, killing everything in the systray, patching all possible troublemakers - nothing helped. Finally today I found a broken-link reference on Apple's forums to a former post on Symantec's forums about Norton Firewall 2002 causing the problem. A quick search of Symantec's forums revealed that apparently NF2002 has a conflict with the Gracenote database connection, even when iTunes is exempted from the Firewall. They claimed the latest patch fixes the problem, but it didn't. The solution? I dumped NF2002 - it's redundant with the hardware firewall anyway. Now album and song titles blissfully appear as soon as the CD does. Still, its disturbing that a four-year old program is obsolete. Black Ice, anyone?