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First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has contributed to this. You people are amazing! My first goal is to be able to play magic against a friend over the internet. I have downloaded Mok's manalink (careful to avoid the updates that were incompatible with multiplayer). I followed the directions, edited manalink.ini, and port-forwarded 27500 on my router; still to no avail. I'm a technological n00b, but I learn quickly (in two weeks, I taught myself mIRC scripting and wrote the most complete VtM roleplaying script on the internet). Any help? Once I figure out the basics, I am looking forward to contributing however I can!

Try "Hamachi" (it emulates a LAN). Make sure you and your friend both got the same hamachi/game version.
Then try to connect to the Hamachi IP (inside that emulated LAN). Should work without much problems.

Thanks for the help Salbei, but I couldn't get it to work. Both of our DotP and hamatchi's are the same. I installed hamatchi, was given an ip, set up a network called Magic531, and had my friend join the network. I saw her computer on my network in hamatchi, so I know that part worked. Then I loaded Magic and hosted a session. She tried to join to the ip that hamatchi gave me, but still never appeared in the window. Did I do something wrong?

You might want to disable your firewall or windows firewall.

Thanks for the advice. Huggybaby just introduced me to Cockatrice, so I think I'll just use that instead; awesome program, although not nearly as aesthetically pleasing as DotP. Now I just have to find people who want to play 8th edition and prior. Someone whipped out a card with plusses and minuses that looked like something out of pokemon...oh, how the game has changed.