Wow, that's a lot of work. I still can't figure out why the program when I conected wanted to use all of those different ports, but it was all very informative. That was a very usefull link. By the way, I turned on Windows firewall and paused my other one and LimeWire being configured to work with Windows had no trouble at all. I do not like W.F. so I will not use it for long though. I will get back to you if the forward does not help.