BBA setup trouble

[Mr Bob The One Eyed Sheep]

Ok here goes
I cannot get bbrip to connect.
I set my network card's ip 192.168.0.1 and the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 in the TCP/IP ethernet adapter properties/ip address dialogue box
also tried setting the adapter network address to the same as the ip but that made no odds if it was there or not.

next downloaded the bbpasport iso in english(ish) and set all the settings on the dc acording to sacrilego's bba tutorial and saved it.

burned the dc ipload from xenas site (never had any burning probs)
put it in and noted the mac address.

next started bbrip put in the ip 192.168.0.2 ticked the add to arp box
put in the mac address clicked ok closed bbrip and opened it again then opened a dos box tapped ARP -A and there was the ip and mac address i assigned to the dc.

so far so good

So next put in the ipdcload cdr in the dc wait for the light to come on my hub or nic (tried it both ways) hit the connect button in bbrip and the dc says recieving data and after about 1 minute an error code comes up. if i hit the reboot button in bbrip the dc says idle.
so the pc and dc must be comunicating but not very well.

I have tried 2 pc's one win 98 the other 95b
I have tried a clean install on both pc's
I have tried with a hub and without
I have tried several different cables
I even tried 2 different nic's one a netgear 10/100 and one intel based 10 base
I have also tried all combinations of the above but all do the same thing.

anyone got any ideas cos I've ran out.

thanks in advance Bob