Sorry for double posting. No one was responding to my post, which lead me to repost.

Anyway, I know LW works on my school's network because I know of other people who use it. The only issue that is of concern is the school's use of Packeteer - which chops up the bandwidth so instead of getting a truly constant stream of bandwidth, the end user gets tiny fragments of bandwidth and the computer still acts like its receiving the max bandwidth.

It puzzles me why I was able to get LW to work, then did something stupid, and now can't get it to work again. I have configured my firewall (XP) time and time again and even tried to alter some settings in my router [although when I was successful in getting LW to work, I did not have to do a thing to the router].

I will try LW beta, as suggested and let you know what becomes of it.

Did I mention before that Morpheus works, and I am able to connect to gnutella through that program - although the speeds are noticiably slower. I have not played around with the firewall settings in Morpheus. I know that you're not in the business of playing around with Morpheus, but why would M connect to the gnutella while LW will not?

I know I asked a lot of questions, but any information/suggestions you are able to provide will greatly be appreciated.

Thanks for your help!