I am trying to authorize adobe digital editions 4.0- on windows 8.

It says it cannot connect to the authorization server and to check my connection.  I am connected to the internet and I have turned off the firewall.  Before we deauthed we were getting and error anytime we wanted to open an ebook that it couldn't connect to the fulfillment server.  It seems like ADE isn't talking to the internet for some reason.  Forums suggested trying to deauth and reauth--which is now where i'm stuck.  I also already tried uninstalling ade, clearing that adept registry key and reinstalling ade.