i can't get past the first "Connecting" bar
 

i have windows xp and recently i updated my limewire and downloaded 4.2.6, but it wouldn't connect. after that, i followed all of the directions on the sites and looked for help in this forum, and the directions i found in sdaswani's thread helped, and now it doesn't tell me that i'm not connecting, but it doesn't go past that first "Connecting" bar. what more can i do??