already gave it a shot by changing the port value- however I called our company's ISP (who owns the outside router, no one but them are allowed to touch it), and repeatedly requested for them to reboot the damn thing, and they finally did. suffice to say, that solved the problem. I thought perhaps it was an Apache issue, as ive never ran Apache on a system with multiple interfaces. Thanks for the reply though, and yes, i saw the Apache FAQ as well, thats what confused me as why it wasnt working.