I have installed androidSDK and I have the path to adb working correctly. the problem is every time I try to run adb I get a message:

*daemon not running. starting it now.*

So I wait, and wait, and wait. I've waited up to an hour with nothing happening. So I adb kill-server and try again. Then I get this message:

*daemon not running. starting it now.*
Adb server didn't ACK
*failed to start daemon*

I've done a lot of searching but nobody seems to have a definite fix. I tried to kill all instances of adb and try again, I've tried restarting the computer, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling androidSDK, and I've manually opened the port adb uses. Nothing works, just the same message every time. Does anybody have any ideas?