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Another (unrelated PITA) is that to connect to my WiFi router, I have to disable a couple of VPN-related things from her wireless profile (Odessey client and some EAC thing)

I don't know about Odessey but EAC is probably Extranet Access Client, which is the VPN client software used to connect to Nortel Contivity VPN gateways. It has likely been configured to lock out connections from any IP except the VPN gateway and also to lock out connections on any interface except the 100baseT ethernet port. This would be a common security setting for EAC - it prevents back door attacks into a corporate network if someone hacks your girlfriend's computer via wireless, and also prevents trojan software acting as a gateway between a remote attacker and the corporate network. Unfortunately it is also user-unfriendly, but there will be little that you can do to prevent that. The question is why is EAC activating that setting automatically at boot? It should only do that when a VPN connection is made.
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