Well yeah, if i didnt then i wouldt of been able to turn my ip to static would i? dunno.. But i found out it wasnt cause of my firewall because when i was uninstalling my old one to install zone alarm it still didnt work when i had no firewall at all.
also opened the port i want to use with my new static ip from my router control panel.. followed the instructions from portforward.com
Problem still not solved :/