Sykep stopped working all of a sudden

Hello,
my skype was working fine untill this morning.but wen i switched on my laptop this evening....there seem to b sumthing wrong.everything else is working fine.msn, yahoo,oovoo,google chrome,internet xplorer,mozilla...everything else is working fine.wat cud b the reason???n any solutions???? it takes soooo long...n in the end i get the msg "skype can't connect" m using DSL...n there's sum distortion in my fone line.cud it b the reason???but even this distortion isn't new....it'z been 3 days...n skype was working fine uptill now.kindly help me.