Weird Stuff is going on...

Here's the deal:

I installed a new motherboard and did a repair install of media center xp (I reformatted only one partition which had the Windows folder in it, and reinstalled Windows into that folder...). Seemed to go fine...

I tried to connect to the internetbut to no avail. Here's my setup: (Cable wire to a Comcast modem. Cable from Comcast modem to a Netgear Wireless Router: WGT624v3. Ethernet cable from router to my computer.)

It kept saying "Acquiring Network Address" and when I tried to "repair" it said "Windows could not because the following action cannot be completed: Renewing IP address".

I did a little research on this sweet site and went with trying to fix the problem in the services.msc and "Start"ing up the DNS CLinet, the DHCP Client, and the Remote Procedure Call.

Bingo! I was then able to connect.

THEN after restarting the computer I had to do this whole thing all over again...

Question (finally!): What can I do so that I don't have to go to services.msc, etc. EVERYTIME I start the computer to get to the internet?

On a side note, I also think theres a problem with a lot of the programs listed in the services.msc that do not "Start" when the computer starts up. They are listed as Active but I need to Start them up... I'm having difficulty performing the Windows Update (error messages abound), when I click on the 60 days to activate windows yellow balloon at the bottom right it goes away but I don't go anywhere! etc. What could be the problem?