Should I return my WD Live? It won't connect at all!

Yeah, sorry if you took that as a jab, it wasn’t my intent.   If you go look at my thread called “A Pull-out-my-hair experience,” you’ll see the kind of frustration a marginal wired connection can cause.   …In fact, it happened to me again last night, but now I know the symptom to watch for:  

   When selecting any server, when the cable’s gone wonky, the spinner takes about 10 seconds to bring up the folder list.   When the cable is behaving, it’ll come up in about 2 seconds.