I did what you said, and I also defragged my pc, did a scan disk check, restarted, scanned it with adaware. Now a error message comes up and it says: your machine does not appear to have an active internet connection or a firewall is blocking limewire from acessing the internet." and goes on to say that it will keep on trying to connect. I know I am definetly online, and I even turned my firewall off. maybe it just wasn't meant to be... lol