I am afraid that if you find Limewire bites they all (all Gnutella) clients bite... what you are experiencing is occuring across all of the clients... I can validate I am having the same experience across the five different clients I am using (Xolox, Bearshare, Gnucleus, Limewire and Shareaza)... it has not always been that way but the last few months the Gutella net has become increasingly frustrating to use. Hang in there... sometimes I suddenly get up to 50% of the files I am looking for then it goes back to 5% or so.... - Even at that I find that Limewire is one of my favorites.