Thanks for all your attempts at assistance - I do believe I have tried that link to more cache servers - but I think there's a bit more room for me to try fiddling with my firewall, even though I did try it with the firewall disabled.

In fact, I've had it. As we speak I'm busy fiddling with Ares (which was written in Delphi and is open source) to see if I can get it to do what I want. Unlike NapShare, Areas actually functions - but doesn't do what I wanted NapShare to do - to provide it a list of things I want it to download - I've been scouring the net for over a week now - have encountered 2 solutions - both of them for unix, and I can't seem to emulate them in windows. Finally I found napshare which works on windows - but it *cough* doesn't work on windows.

Thanks for your help, I'll try keep you posted on my further attempts.