Well, that explains why you're on Googletalk.
Yeah, that's pretty close to how it worked out with me. I'm not remembering details, but I think when I hit the snag wasn't until a few days after we had the switch. The cable guy here showed up, saw things were working, did a few checks, and was more or less on his way because everything seemed like it was in order. Then, a few days later it could no longer get an internet connection. I assume what happened was a connection with the previous tenate was never severed and we got on through his thing. When I lost my connection, I think someone finally got around to flipping whatever switch was there to end his account and then turned mine off in the process. A (relatively) quick phone call solved the problem, but it stumped the guy on the other end as to why it actually happened. All we both knew was a reset on both ends fixed everything... at least that's sort how I remember things going down. It's already a bit fuzzy in my mind.
But, congrats again. Enjoy building the place now. Either that can be really fun or sorta annoying... I'm still waiting on Aimee to finish some of her stuff. That's annoying.