rickn109,
I use PcAnywhere on a daily basis. From my experience, it's probably not going to work if you choose a com port. Pick your modem from the drop down list on both computers. If the program is going to stay active all of the time on your daughter's computer, make sure and use a logon name and password, just for safety's sake. This way, if someone were to see that she was using the program, they couldn't just dial into her machine. If she is not going to be dialing into your machine, then you just need to set up the host on hers, and the remote on your machine.
Any other questions...just fire away.
And for the record, I agree with you...the manual is crap! Much easier to use by just messing around with the program!
JustMe2