After spending 45 minutes on the phone with my father across the pond, trying to get Slingbox re-setup (for some odd reason the power outage brought it down), I went back to this thread, installed LogMeIn Free and in 15 minutes was up and running.

Then I went by and updated all passwords on the ftp server, also updated anti-virus, Adobe, god knows whats been sitting on the computer for months

Highly recommended!!!! ^