I did all these tests and kept opening LW to see if the wall was still there. When I saw the wall, I got frustrated, closed LW, and went back to work on another solution. Wellllllllll, I decided to actually try a search with the wall icon in the corner. Duh! It worked.

I dunno what the wall/globe icon means. Maybe it means that LW is firewalling crap out of its own searches, but after I did the deletion of the preferences folder and the switching of the gnutella.net folder, I still saw the wall/globe icon, but the "bars" were back, so I tried and search and "bam!"

Soooo, maybe try a search if you still have the wall/globe and see if it works.

As far as ISP's, the cox service guy told me that comcast is limiting p2p or stopping it all together and that cox is moving in that direction. He was pretty candid to say that cox doesn't like LW but that cox is so disorganized as a corporation that it seems unlikely they will actually do anything unless it becomes a problem and that their servers are so big that is unlikely.

Okay. Now, for the REAL COMPUTER GENIUSES OUT THERE, why is it that every single time I click a link for anything in the gnutellaforums, my computer locks up, and I have to alt/ctrl/del? When I click on the link from my email or from one of the posts, it tries to connect in another tab, then locks up. What's the deal?

Thanks,
T