This may be a network thing

I have a similar problem when trying to use gnucleus on win98 on my university network I think ports might be blocked or a cleaver firewall or somthing.

I've tried lots of gnutella clients none of which worked, however gnucleus was the only one which crashed.

I found that if I stopped it from trying to connect really quick it didn't crash, but if I then tried to connect it would crash.