I only get a connection once adding connect3.bearshare.net to my list of connections, after this I only get about 30 hosts max and more often than not none....and most of the servers in the conect list say connecting.....

also I might add that the interface of my copy of limewire (1.8b) is quite different to that of the one in the tutorial and doesn't have a few of the options....is this because I am on a mac (wouldn't have thought so as the prog is java...)