First, I'm totally new to VPNs.  My wife is set up with a VPN to connect 
to work from home.  If I use a wired connection to my router, everything 
functions fine.  If I use the wireless card, failure.  After a bit of 
Googling I tried connecting through a neighbor's unsecured wireless 
network.  Tada... the VPN works.  So, my question is this - Can you only 
use a VPN when you are connected to an unsecured wireless network?  I 
can't use WPA & VPN at the same time?  Is there something else I'm missing?

Thank you,
Carl