I'm officially techno-cursed

Okay. It's official now. I'm cursed.
I signed up for DSL since my connection was too slow for Firefox to connect me to blackboard. I bought a new computer, since the old one couldn't handle the software needed for the wireless DSL I got. Not even bothering to attempt to set it up myself, I got a techie friend to come get it all working. After an hour of plugging and unplugging, downloading and restarting, general head-scratching and muttering, "I've done this three times before and it was never this hard," she was on the phone for another hour with three different technicians at the DSL place. The last one, after taking her "deep" into the system and sending remote messages from DSL-central, finally got it working, with the announcement, "Wow, I've never had this problem before!" SO IT'S NOT JUST ME!!!
The clincher: I still can't get on blackboard from home. I'm "not authorized to view this page."
So I'm chanting Kimberly's mantra: "It's okay, it's just stuff. Plan B. It's just stuff. Plan B. It's just stuff. Plan B..."