thank you everyone for the help so far.
Ok...so new update - no clue what i was able to do but at some point using the planet web 3 a screen loaded that basically said the "document could not be found" (and I ended up on this screen somehow by clicking internet options, which is normally supposed to bring me to the network setup screen but somehow it brought up the broken url page)...but I was able to change the url in the url window to google...and it loaded! I quickly saved "current URL" to my VMU to allow me to just get online by loading the URL for google.com from planet web.
Now the weird thing is all the settings for static IP, DNS, etc are all still 0.0.0.0...but able to get online at least to google.
Now my question is - how exactly can i get online with Jet Grind Radio to "save" images I've uploaded to a website to save on my VMU.
I've looked up posts about going to Internet from the Garage....but when I try to connect, it tries to use the "modem"
So my following questions are:
1. Can I get online using broadband on Jet Grind or is it only compatible with modem
2. How exactly do I bring up the in-game browser on Jet Grind Radio? I've read post to basically hold A and press start 9 times and then press Y on the bottom of the "internet" portal screen in the game to bring up the URL window so I can change it to google.com. I've tried a gazillion times and nothing is happening. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?
thank you all so much for the help so far - much appreciation from bottom of heart