I must admit I did post this a bit premature, however i did not have any problem connecting , the problem i had was the lack of sources for download . This lead me back to limewire , started by replacing the gnutella file again ....and now limewire is working again , but i have not tried it today ....Also i am running windows xp .....I read about other issues with vista ......Regardless it is a headache and good luck ....