Networking Problems Need Help!!

[BobcatProgramer]

I just got a Toshiba laptop (M-30 with centrino technology)
and i got a Linksys wireless router. I want to create a network between my laptop and my families desktop to share files and mainly share the internet connection.
The computer that i am connecting to is and old computer running windows me and i want to connect to it with my laptop running xp, and i want to use my desktops dial up connection to share onto my laptop.

I have got both computers to see the router and connect to a network and transfer files and printers ex. and this is using the tcp/ip protocol and i want to use the Me's computer to share the internet so i set up ics (internet connection sharing) on it and it was set up correctly and at one point the computer said that 2 computers were using the internet connection.

My problem that i am having is that when i go on internet explorer on my laptop it gives me the error saying no website found ex. i have used my laptop on the schools lan network and the internet works just fine, so i was wondering if internet explorer has to be set up to use the wireless lan or maybe a network setting has to be used??? And i manually set the ip addresses to 192.168.0.1 (Desktop host Me) and 192.168.0.2 (Laptop Xp home) both with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

Has anyone have any idea how to get the laptop to work with the connection, people have done it i just don't know how. And my network works just not the internet sharing

Any help would be apreciate
thanks