Well their problem sounds obvious. Most universities either block or filter p2p sharing nowadays. eg: Here's an example of how a p2p bandwidth shaper can work (this example is from a university): Bandwidth Shaper Sample - typical of how some ISP's also use it (click on link) ie: giving priority to net surfing & low priorities to p2p sharing.

BTW I neither have a G5 or Tiger so I'm not qualified to answer new issues with Tiger. And this is a forum, we don't care what you do, use LW or not but try to help. We are volunteers & this site is not run or owned by Limewire.org. This forum caters for many gnutella programs.