Internet Connect doesn't like me...

Hi. Normally I can figure out what's wrong with my computer on my own, but this time I've been thrown for a loop and I need help. And I apologize in advance for the lack of useful information about my computer. :/
I've got a G4, tower of some sort, blue and silver (not the bright blue, the darker grey-blue)... Anyway. I just upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.3.??? last week, and Internet Connect won't work. There's a possibility it's the same problem I was having with it before the upgrade, but I wasn't able to fix it then, either, so I suppose it doesn't matter. Anyway.
I use my cellphone to connect to the internet. At least, I'd like to. It works on my roommate's XP laptop just fine, but I've never gotten it to work on my computer. Various phones, I have modem scripts for all of them. I use Bluetooth to connect. I'm fairly sure I have the correct login information. (*99# i think, can't remember. t-mobile, anyway) The modem will pick up and dial, will say "connecting" for about thirty seconds, then will say "disconnecting" until I decide to restart the computer to make it stop saying that. The error log doesn't give me any really useful information on why it's disconnecting, as far as I can remember. It just kind of dies, I guess.
Any thoughts? And again, I apologize for lack of useful information. :/

are you connected for the 30 seconds or not at all?
i had similar issue when i recently installed an airport extreme. i had to check to see what the default setting for internet connect was and that it didnt automatically try to connect using the default (previosuly i wasnt wireless so it was looking for the ethernet cable). needless to say, it created havoc because i thought everything was connected correctly - and it was - but i had failed to remove the auto connection via PPPoE.
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