I guess I'm getting somewhere.

Now, whenever I start up LW, it connects - 5 stars, no firewall - for a minute before giving me the ol' 1/5 bars again.

Also, LW lets me open up multiple copies of itself, and won't shutdown properly - I have to go into task manager and end the "LimeWire.exe" process because when I close it, it hangs on the "shutting down window bar gauge" thing.

Just an odd anomaly I thought I'd mention.