I’m having some MAJOR HORRIBLE PROBLEMS when trying to connect to LimeWire!!

Our computer pretty much keeled over just before Christmas (due to one of our family friends). We had to reinstall everything however, I now find I’m having some horrible connection problems with LimeWire.

I’m pretty much unsure what exactly it could be but we have Norton 2005 installed / connect via broadband / have windows xp home and have windows service pack 2 installed. I have a sneaky suspicion it could have something to do with the firewall only because prior to this our ‘WINDOWS SECURITY CENTER’ gave us two options of turning the windows firewall on and off. We always turned it off and relied on our Norton personal firewall however, NOW it states in the security center, under FIREWALL ‘Norton internet security is currently on’ with the green button on however, when you go into the windows firewall options it states that the windows firewall is off … so I don’t know. I have permitted limewire and javaw through nortons personal firewall program thing. Also, it may be this service pack 2 because I’m pretty sure we had only service pack 1 before it all crashed.

I guess this is just my last resort for help due to the fact that it now states I’m behind a firewall in limewire and takes forever to find anywhere to download a file from..it takes forever to download a file whether it be small or large ..with the larger files it would download 30+ kb/s now its like 4/5 kb/s and struggles staying with a single host. I’d just turn off ALL firewalls if Norton didn’t scare me with the evil truth of hacking…

Thanks for any help.