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Contact your school network admin and ask them for help. It sounds more like this problem is on their end, perhaps with network access permissions. (your upgrading to Leopard may look like a "foreign" computer to the school network - blocking you by default, they might have to reassign permissions)

So yeah, contact them.
 
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