Thanks Morpheus.
Sorry about the delay in responding to this thread, work related duties. I did get the winsnort up and running flawlessly. This tutorial worked wonders, it was easy to follow, it was accurately written and it worked beautifully for someone who is new to snort/linux, like myself.
I am off to find a tutorial, that is just as good to install snort in IPS mode using Ubuntu Server.
Thanks again.
Belnando