Hello! Thank you so much for the help!
I was using on of the y.y.y.y/29 addresses. I use the x.x.x.x/30 for general office traffic and the y.y.y.y/29 for mail, web and ftp servers. I will give it a try on the x.x.x.x address.
I will try downloading a older version of pulse.
Yes pulse asks the user for their username and password once when the connection is intially setup.
Thanks again for your help!