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eh.. I could be wrong but I believe it's possible to configure the webui in the utorrent settings without having the archive in the correct directory. ..but if you found the settings.dat and threw the archive in the same directory, I suppose you're in good shape by that regard. What I meant about the 'outgoing port range' is that sometimes businesses will setup a firewall to give you exactly what you need for standard services (HTTP, etc.) and nothing else. Also take into consideration that the ports randomly assigned by utorrent are usually pretty high(in the 10s of thousands), where there's very few, if any, standard services using that range. So it may be possible that your employer has your outgoing utorrent port blocked.

Did you open the specified utorrent port on your router? Is your webui archive in the same directory as your utorrent settings.dat file? Is your computer at work possibly firewalled in the outgoing port range your utorrent port falls into?

This is a great addition to an already great bittorrent client, but I've found that if I leave it running for some time, I have problems with adding torrents - url or file - via the webui. FYI, I'm running utorrent as a service on my server(firewall/router). I haven't tested running it outright while logged in with a user account, so I'm not sure if the problem is independant of this.