Sounds like your router may be acting as a DHCP server. Can you lease an IP? (go to Start->Run... type "cmd" and hit enter. In the command prompt that comes up, type "ipconfig /renew *". If that doesn't work, try "ipconfig /renew_all" I can't remember which one XP uses).
If you can't lease an IP, you may need to set up a static IP... but you need to know what subnet your router is on. Do you know that info? (192.168.x.x is an example, with the x's replaced by numbers. 10.0.x.x is another example).
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