nah...cuz pc road kill is a good thing.

Slightly back on topic...
 

Carolyn,
Getting back to what you were trying to do, if I remember correctly, you were just trying to share the internet between the two machines. I've only done this with a dialup connection, but it should work the same for a cable connection.

First, put 2 network cards in the PC, I know it seems like overkill, but there's a reason for doing this.

Then, hook your cable modem to one of the PC network cards, and get it all working from there.

Then, right-click on Network Neighborhood, and select the network adaptor that your cable modem is connected to from the list. Click on Properties. On one of the tabs, there should be an option for Internet Connection Sharing. Turn connection sharing ON, and select the OTHER network adaptor as the one to use for sharing. What you're basically doing here is saying, "if anyone from connection B tries getting on the internet, use the connection that you already have on connection A."

Then, connect the Mac and PC together with the open network cards on each, and either a "crossover" cable, or two standard LAN cables and a hub.

Finally, ICS on Windows requires that you change a few settings on your Mac. Go into the TCP/IP control panel, make sure Ethernet is selected, and select Automatic (via DHCP). This tells the Mac to get its IP address and other information through its Ethernet connection, and since ICS is running over on the Windows machine, it will give the Mac this information when it asks for it.

DISCLAIMER: Some of this information may not be in quite the same location as I have just said. I'm running a different version of Windows (XP Pro RC1) and a different version of Mac OS (7.5.3) than you are, so I can't check to make sure I'm pointing you in the exact right direction. Check the help files(Windows) or Apple Guide(Mac) if you can't find something that you're looking for. But, I can say that by using the updated version of the ICS feature that's in XP, and the older TCP/IP(Open Transport) that's in Mac OS 7.5.3 seemed to cooperate with each other.

Hope this helps!