@ crohrs
Thanks for posting and taking the time to answer my question - your info was very helpful to me and I think I understand how peer-to-peer filesharing works a little better now.
I don't know any friends who are connected that I can connect to, but with your tip I was able to get connected to "bearshare.net". THANK YOU.
I hope whatever your flood denial is that it's something you can fix soon. I think eBay had something like that about a year ago, it was just awful.
Anyway, Thanks for doing a great job for all of us who use this program