Hellbound,

I had a lot of trouble with McAfee on AOL 9.0. I finally disabled it and switched back to Norton for my firewall. Although in my case Limewire was running fine with Norton to start with but at least after I disabled McAfee on AOL 9.0 everything started working again.

First - make sure your XP firewall is disabled.

Next, I assume you are running AOL 9.0 if you have McAfee running with it. Try running Limewire with AOL shut down? If it runs O.K. then I will bet it is AOL (and probably McAfee) interfering.

I hope one of those tips works. I wish I could offer more help. As an AOL user I sympathize with you.

Norm