What is it with Macs and LAN?

I have a MacBook Pro 13" that is new with Lion. I am having the worst problem getting an internet connection with either airport express connected to a work place LAN or with the LAN connected directly to the computer. Sometimes I can get a connection by playing with different configurations in network preferences but what works one time won't work the next time. This is the case with both airport express and direct connection. But here's the weird thing. I have no problems what so ever when I boot up into Windows 7 via boot camp. Is it Lion that's the problem? Anyone have any clues? Note also that I have no problems when connected to my home cable internet weather direct or with airport express.

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Hopefully you have a backup, but...
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
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Paragraphs help the reader, just saying.
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It makes no difference at all.
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HD? Another HD? You use HD there in a way that makes no sense. What's the point of 'DVD size'?
I also thought I should download future photos to my Canon programming that comes with EOS cameras and edit and then decide which photos to save to iPhoto library and which to save only to my archival HD?
Does this have any relation to the previous questions? You know you can delete from iPhoto, right?
You're somewhat confused and you need to
1. Decide what exactly you want to do
2. Then go about it.
If I understand you correctly - and there's no guarantee that I do - the easiest thing is to bring all your Photos into iPhoto and do everything from there.
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Now, when purchased a creative suite 4 Designe premium, installed, all programs are fine, just the photoshop not working, asking for serial number but when I type the right numbers, doesn`t accept.
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Hi,thank you, that is fine, just not so quick but I resolved the problem alone.Thanks anyway you helped me.Eva
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:53:58 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Pls help me with Mac and had a trial serial number problems
Hello, Eva. For CS4 problems, you need to ask in the Photoshop forum (this is the Photoshop Elements forum). It's here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/photoshop_macintosh
Good luck!
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iPhone 4.1 / iTunes 10.0
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OP back again,
Justv added a few more tunes (c.70) and my problem has righted itself. New tunes added from CDs. J (in Artist listing) and Q (in Song listing) now appearing as expected.
This is obviously an intermittent and unrepeatable bug.
I asked at my Apple Store (again) about this (while I still had the issue), they advise a Genuis appointment, at which I was assured that if they could not fix it, they would replace my handset.
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BRgds
JG

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