I fired up Parallels today like I do every day so that I can file mail away etc, I usually close it for the rest of the day as it mucks up cmd-tab and Quicksilver although I may have a fix for that now, more testing required..
Anyhoo, I haven't changed a thing wrt networking since I got my machine back and it all works fine, this morning I had limited or no connectivity in XP, tried a reboot of XP but still the same, changed the netwroking from Shared to Bridged and Voila! it all works again, why? I have no clue, perhaps I should have rebooted OSX too and might still try that, but why - when NOTHING has been changed would it require a change like that !!
Bloody computers....