Hi, I'm Paul aka Argonauta, owner of, for the record, a MacBookPro, MacOs X.5.6 Intel blah blah. New here, hi everyone. I've been having a week of ongoing downloadus interruptus ("no Internet connection", LW 5 crashing...) after several weeks of successful online intercourse. And I just want the latest episode of my favourite series! Baffled, I came here seeking for help and apparently I got it. Had to remove the file gnutella.net, which I have, and it seems everything is working fine now (thanks Lord of the Rings). Yet, no new gnutella.net file has been automatically created when I reopened LimeWire. Should I be concerned?
Second thing, LW is painstakingly slow? (I've broadband connection, no firewalls that I know rate is anything up to 40kb) Is it also a gnutella.net related issue?
Thank you for any answers. Please remember I'm not a tecchie, may I spell it so. Hope I got the right forum. Regards everyone.

Ps.: more info, it's a home computer and I've found out that I'm behind a firewall according to Advanced Tools. Had no idea, must be the ISPs (Vodafone Spain). How does one disconnect that? What else? Yeap, plenty of RAM, Hard Disk, my "Your Test Worked" worked too. Thanks for your patience!

Ps2: and something curious. Trying to download a video file (699mb). Slooooow, but it got to 60mb downloaded and then it keeps going back to 59, up to 60, down to 59 again in secula seculorum. What's up doc? And thanks again!