[saltman]

are you using a software firewall? like norton internet security, or zonealarm?
I would reccommend turning off Windows Firewall if you are. Are you behind a router???? If you are you will have to forward the specific ports through the router. Each torrent program uses different ports, usually. For ABC above, you'd forward port 58310 (from above). Some programs use a range of ports some only use one. Tornado uses 6991-6889 I think. It looks like ABC only uses one like Azureus.