After suffering the same connection problems as all the rest of you, I stumbled onto a reliable and easy fix for my installation that might work for you. Just find and delete the gnutella.net file. LimeWire will create another one the next time it is started. Since finding this fix, I never fail to connect almost immediately after starting LimeWire. I hope it works as well for you as it did for me. I'm now a very content LimeWire Pro user.