Bilbo (I feel we know each other well enough now): the first step in manually port forwarding is to open LimeWire to determine which ports it is using. if you read my forum post dated March 10th you will see that i am unable to open LimeWire. so in response to your most recent query, no, the above instructions do not work. if i knew which ports LimeWire PRO 4.18.8 uses, the instructions quite probably WOULD work.