No connection made??

Hello

I have SBC DSL. When I first got it a couple years ago and tried to open up IE after connecting I got this window "No connection made" try again or work offline. When I hit try again it would come up. Someone told me how to remove fix that. Somehow it has come back. I can still hit try again and if works fine so I didn't pay much attention other then it was a hassle to have to hit try again. I would like to know how to fix get rid of that window. Reason being is I think it's affecting my windows media player. Anytime I try to use it I get no connection found window. So I'm thinking the two are corrleated. I appreciate any information/help that anyone can give me. Believe me you will be saving a lot of headaches. BTW, I have Win 98 second edition. Thanks again

Jason

 

I have IE 6 and Win. Med P. 9. The Media player acts like I'm not connected at all. Once again, not sure if that has anything to do with the window I get when I start up IE 6, but I think it does. Any answers?