Birdy ur the man (or WO-man?) either way i think enabling the port in mcafee worked!! it just took limewire like half an hour to log on for the first time because after posting my thread i went back to limewire and i had turbo charged connection!!

But then whenever i would try to download something it would not go down to the download section. so i found another piece of advised you had posted about reseting the pop-ups option to default. FIXED!!!! This was actually the reason i bought limewire pro because my free version wouldnt put anything into the download section from the search section.

Anywho im very impressed and thank you very much