This message is for Blazr, galbros and Aemon.
Thank you guys so very much for your wisdom relating to transferring my bitcoins from my Coinbase.com account to my Electrum wallet.
I finally did it!

I just had to wait a little bit longer than a few minutes after I set the proxy drop box to none, my protocol dropbox to HTTPS and selected the specific server you told me to select(can't think of the name right now).
Keep up the great technical support!
Mike