Your initial problem is that you did not set up an Alternate Access
Mapping for your site. Read about them here,
www.toddklindt.com/.../Post.aspx?ID=39

Read that over and see if you still want to uninstall or do the other
stuff.

Thanks for the information. I think that once I get it working again, this
will be useful. Unfortunately I cannot even make mods to it via SharePoint
Central Admin. When I try, it goes to my domain (router) and times out. At
this point, I'd love to be able to go to just my machine name and start all
over again (using the suggestions from the URL you included.

In the meantime, I cannot access Central Admin, even after a complete
uninstall, reboot, and install.

Why is your router involved? What happens when you try to get to Central
Admin on the SharePoint server itself?

I think there are a couple things you could try here. One would be to
read through your event viewer and see what errors you are getting. If
you are pretty sure everything is set up right then check out the
psconfig.exe command
(technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263093.aspx) I used this
command when I lost my central  admin and everything came back to life.
If you changed something on your router, you may want to check that the
ports you have in IIS match what you have in your router.

Also, check to see if your Firewall is preventing anything.

There are a few problems here. Why would you want to be able to access the
Central Admin from outside your network without SSL? Another thing is you won't
be able to access a default web application from outside the router because your
URL is not a FQDN. If you made your sharepoint  site sharepoint.yourcompany.com
then you can get to it outside of the network. If the site is just the server
name you wont be able to access unless you us VPN.

You could also extend the web application and give it a FQDN like
sharepoint.yourcompany.com if you just wanted to get to it from outside but you
need to setup FBA to authenticate to your domain.

If you want to get back to square one, I say undo what you have done on the
router and uninstall SharePoint. Make sure the server also is in your DNS. There
could be a host of things wrong with what you are describing.

did you fix this yet??????????????????