Skype confliction?

First off I'm running Windows 8 with the latest version of NIS. I've had Skype 6.10, and it hadn't updated to 6.11 yet.

 

Anyway today Skype was fine, nothing wrong. I left for a few hours and when I came back to log in, Skype lags like CRAZY. Messages take minutes to send, it's eating up resources big time. I thought it was because of it trying to update. I waited, nothing. Manually checked for updates and it said checking was unavailable. I got fed up and uninstalled Skype, rebooted, and reinstalled. This time it put 6.11 on. It's doing the same exact thing, barely usable.

 

It wasn't like this in the morning! Could it have been a Norton update that's causing a confliction? I got no clue as to why it's doing this. I've contacted some of my friends through Facebook and they're not having any problems with it right now and they also don't run Norton!