Boy, how dumb I feel right now! I initiated a system defragmentation today, and it was chugging along pretty well when it started to interfere with RealPlayer, and I was called upon to abort the defragmentation. Then, a bit later, I started LimeWire, and LimeWire connected right to one Gnutella host! Since LimeWire had already gotten one Gnutella host, it decided to keep going until it had three Gnutella connections under its belt. Of course, that took a while, but it eventually latched on to three Gnutella computers -- and now I'm at five bars again!

So here's a bit of advice to those of you who can't connect to the Gnutella network with LimeWire or any other Gnutella client:

When all else fails, defragment your HDD!

That's all from me!