Need help on the WRT54G wireless router!

Hello all! I need your help guys! I have a Linksys Wireless router WRT54G V4 and it was working fine till yesterday when a power drop happen in my neighborhood. I notice that my router was alright but when I tried going online it didn't work. So I resetted my router and ran the CD for all the steps and now it keeps reading that it can't pick up on my At&T DSL Modem. It keeps stating that I should see if it's on, which it is, and if not then try to turn it off then back on. Well, I've tried that and no luck!
My next step was to go the the router's setup page and do the setup through there. Ok, so, I've done everything right but when you go to the Status section of the page and push connect it reads that my PPoEp, or how ever it's spelled, has failed. In troubleshooting, I checked to see if my modem was bad so I connected the internet directly to my computer without the router and the modem works fine.
So there you have guys. What do you think is wrong or what should I do!? My 3 Year warranty has expired on this router and I'm not about to cough up $25-$29 dollars for tech support from Linksys. The router is still good. Every thing lights up and is in good shape.
My guess is that the port where the internet is connected on the router may be a bad port.
Suggestions!?

You can try these settings
Open reouters set up page ,under internet connection type use "automatic configuration DHCP",click on save settings.
Click on "mac clone" sub tab ,enable the service click "clone my pcs mac" & click save settings .
Now under status tab check the internet Ip address ,if you are getting public Ip ,then try going online .
If Ip is 192.168.1.x ,then under set up change the Local Ip address to 192.168.2.1. save the settings & power cycle for 1 min .
Then again try going online.
If Ip is 0.0.0.0,then use PPPOE under internet connection type & enter username & password provided by your
ISP .click on connect under status tab.If getting a valid Ip address try going online OR
Let me know the exact error message on status tab after clicking connect .

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