Thanks to all the developers for this release! It's definately much better than 1.7.5. I still have a slight problem with the exe "running away" and eating up 95+% cpu time, but at least I can close it, wait a few minutes, and everything's hunky-dorey again (I suspect my problem's more of an XP thing, anyway).
I've tried several of the gnutella client and I've found this to be the best and most efficient one for my uses.