>Mark,
>I'm up and running, thanks.
>I'm still not connecting to the university, but that's ok.
>I'm running in standalone mode, and it's working and that's all I
>need for now.
>Thanks for your help. I had the setting wrongs.
>Amy

The Oracle DBA at the University who controls your access to that server should be able to help you connect to their server. Are you trying to connect remotely? If so, you may have a firewall issue if the server is within the University network and you trying to connect from the outside.