Thanks for the suggestions..I have tried them ALL and it still won't connect. It just sits at the "starting connection"

I have disabled the windows xp firewall and left on only the mcafee and that shows that limewire has "full access" however, the limewire program still shows that it is behind a firewall...I assume that is not the problem, but only an information icon???

Any other suggestions you or anyone might have would be appreciated.