wow? im not sure what i did but it seems to have gotten it running again. but something in your suggestions definitly made it work.
I seem to have two issues yet

first: i am still getting a bunch of "need more sources" but i think its related to an abnormally low volume of users listed on the bottom of my window, it tells me i have 94 users, when commonly i see over 3000.

I have tried to disconnect and reconnect in order to gain different ultrapeers, but it remains consistantly low, for some reason im thinking the only selections im getting downloaded are the ones directly off the ultrapeer and not the rest who funnel through.
any suggestions?