Continuation of last night

So I put in a call to the clients windows servers guys, who, as it seems, came up with the goods.

The instructions are below:

Open ‘Network Connections’
Select Advanced from the main menu
Select Advanced Settings
From the Adapters and Bindings tab folder change the network binding order for the public network so it will be above the private network.
do a ipconfig /all again and check if the public network displays first.

Note that the order in the IP config did not change for me. I rebooted the server and the ipconfig was still the same... BUT- I was able to federate my second node into the cell... So watch this space for the final installment of backup deployment management