using windows 8.1 cannot get the wallet to connect to the network to sync.

I've sent coins to the wallet but cannot sync and thus cannot send the coins anywhere.

anyone else having issues? I've tried disabling upnp that did nothing, tried the coffeecoin.conf that did nothing to help.

ran it in admin mode and that did nothing. tried all of the above with the windows firewall turned off.

any other suggestions?