You have both Win XP & Norton firewalls? This is not recommended b/c XP firewall can interfere with Norton IS. Another post just yesterday showed this up. Norton also recommends against it.

Do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is it True/False? If false then you have a firewall issue.

Not a good idea to run 2 p2p apps simultaneously. Peerless who is an experienced LW & bittorrent user says Bittorent is a bandwidth hog & steals all the bandwidth from LW so they can't work together. See http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...=%2Atorrent%2A

Can you give us a total desciption of your set up:
1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98)
2. What firewalls you have?
3. ram?
4. Hard Disk space available?
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
9. Who is your isp provider?
10. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user.