I havent been able to use limewire all week, so tonight i downloaded gnotella, and hated the gnotella interface but had no problems connecting. so i added the gnotella hosts to the limewire autoconnect hosts list and limewire is now connecting
connect1.gnutellanet.com
connect2.gnutellanet.com
connect3.gnutellanet.com
connect4.gnutellanet.com