issues with the bitcoin wallet app on OSX

[mrh235]

i just downloaded the bitcoin wallet app and everything seemed to work fine until i had someone send me bitcoins. As soon someone sent me some bitcoins I received "2500 blocks," but i still have zero connections, zero transactions, and my wallet balance is zero. probably a noob question, but I just want to make sure nothing's wrong. when should my balance update? Is there something special I have to do?

this is an image of what im talking about:
http://imageshack.us/f/833/screenshot20110526at855.png/

Nothing appears under transactions either and yes, generate coins is on

[cypherdoc]

the network has been very slow recently and the last update seems to have problems connecting.  leave the client open for a long while and once the entire blockchain downloads u should then receive ur btc's

[mrh235]

the network has been very slow recently and the last update seems to have problems connecting.  leave the client open for a long while and once the entire blockchain downloads u should then receive ur btc's

ok i now have 113094 blocks, 2 connections, and 0 transactions now, but still havent gotten the coins. I restarted the program and enabled generate coins. is there anything else i should do?

[scifimike12]

Make sure you forward port 8333 in your router.  I had a similar issue back thinking it was MSE but it was my router the whole time. 

[cypherdoc]

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9821.20

go to this thread.  all your answers are there.