Chris wrote:

SETI@home - 2005-01-15 08:27:46 - Deferring communication with project

for 47 weeks, 0 days, 13 hours, 23 minutes, and 17 seconds

the same message with the upgraded client.

Have you gone to the gone to the projects tab and tried to manually update by right-clicking on the project, then left-clicking on update?

This message usually appears on my machines when I have not been connected to the network and I have not disabled BOINC network access. BOINC attempts to call home, can't get through, and increases the delay with each unsucessful attempt.  My delay starts at one minute and goes up from there.

You can manually force a connection attempt using the above method.

HTH