Here's what happened (Score 1)

Sorry, I'm too lazy to read all the comments, so apologies if this is redundant.

I woke up Saturday morning, try to load up Google.....but it seemed as if AT&T's DNS servers were set up to redirect all queries to http://newuser.attbi.com (as per the snail-mail letter). So, voila, I end up there, download their config utility (yea, I'm on windoze box, shoot me) and after a reboot I'm back in action. My host name is now computername.attbi.com (as opposed to computername.city.state.home.com)and my IP is 12.xxx.xxx.xxx (don't have it memorized yet; too lazy to look at winipcfg ). So, no more 24.xxx.xxx.xxx.

Everything went REAL smooth for me, others in my hood weren't so lucky. However, I gave them my DNS server IPs and they made up their own IP address and it worked. So, from the few posts I did read, it seems as though you can bypass AT&T's DNS servers until they get their act together.

-Tim