NAV 2009 - after LiveUpdate, network connection is hosed

I'm not sure exactly how or what is happening, but this has occurred twice now.

 

This is a stable laptop running XP/SP2 - for years - with various flavors of only NAV.

When I recently installed the 2009 version, this happened, and I chaulked it up to the "install".

It somehow started working, and everything was ok.... until todays update... 16.2.0.7

 

I ran the LiveUpdate - and then re-booted...

At that point my WiFi interface was hosed.... could see the AP, but not talk to it, or thru it.

Tried Repair, Enable/Disable, etc

Did the Re-boot thing... nothing..

 

Then I  opened NAV 2009, and clicked OFF for the Web Browser & Intrusion -

Things started worked ok - 

Then clicked both of those protection elements back ON - things still ok - 

Re-booted - things still ok :)

 

SO - there appears to be something weird ??? but not sure where ???