Network Blues

[Cactus_Hugger]

So. I purchased a brandspankin' new PCI ethernet card, as it was on sale for $5. The new one is 100Mbps, x10 faster than my old one. It's a Netgear FA311v2. Netgear's site said it was compatible with 98, but the supplied drivers fail. A bit of Google-ing led to a forum post (on netgear-forum.com) that led to a RealTek driver. This driver works.

However, in the process (several days) something in the networking config got screwed up. The card is working, I get an IP address via DHCP just fine, I can browse/use network shares, and I can ping people if I know their IP address. However, that's about it. Every other program (including IE) fails at the call to socket(). I cannot even view a server on the local loopback (I couldn't start one, let alone connect). socket() seems to be failing with "WSA E AFNOTSUPPORTED" (not in windows atm, but the #define is close to that. Error 10047, I think) The command "ping google.com" fails, while "ping --google's ip here" succeeds.
Below is the output of route and ipconfig, and links to several screenshots of every setting dialog related to networking that I could think of. If you need more info, I'll be happy to give.

C:\>ipconfig /All

Windows 98 IP Configuration

	Host Name . . . . . . . . . : ROCKYTOP
	DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
	Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
	NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . : 
	IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No
	WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No
	NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : No

0 Ethernet adapter :

	Description . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC                                   
	Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-14-6C-75-FB-96
	DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
	IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.6
	Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
	Default Gateway . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
	DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
	Primary WINS Server . . . . : 
	Secondary WINS Server . . . : 
	Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : 09 14 06 6:21:18 PM
	Lease Expires . . . . . . . : 09 15 06 7:36:44 AM

C:\>route print

Active Routes:

  Network Address          Netmask  Gateway Address        Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.1.1      192.168.1.6       1
        127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1       1
      192.168.1.0    255.255.255.0      192.168.1.6      192.168.1.6       1
      192.168.1.6  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1       1
    192.168.1.255  255.255.255.255      192.168.1.6      192.168.1.6       1
        224.0.0.0        224.0.0.0      192.168.1.6      192.168.1.6       1
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255      192.168.1.6      192.168.1.6       1

Other:
Network - Basic
Network - Interface
Network - NetBEUI
Network - TCP/IP
Device Manager
I use Windows 98, first edition, 192MB RAM, AMD processor (450MHz).
Thanks for any help.