thnaks for the response. I lose all hosts in limewire. I have high speed internet and it is fine. It's just a bit irritating to finally build up to a zillion hostsonly to lose them all. Also I can't click on the bar on top of my screen when limewire is running or it quits on me. I went to click on the "help" pull down menu and bam! no more limewire. had to restart. Shrugs