I'm doing fine with version 1.41 now. I suggest returning to version 1.41 untill the 1.45 beta has been fully debugged. My other question/suggestion was/is have you opened up port 6346 in your Norton's Personal Firewall? If it isn't you won't get a good connection no matter which version of Xolox your running. Go into Nortons see if its on your list of allowed programs. Add it if isn't already there or have Nortons rescan for it. If your not sure do it manually.
Sorry thats bout all the help I can be.
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DSilver