when you opened the wallet first time did you allow connections? via the pop up box?
sounds like this never got set.
To get your keys..
open the wallet, you have to generate a new wallet and give it a password
You can then save the wallet Seed by right clicking on the CLI box, select edit and copying what it says then pasting into notepad or something similar.
Hmm, so I probably got a wallet that is not synced, so I lost my coins in that wallet?