I continued the search on my computer and found LW files but no preferences under any catagory. I didn't think that my school blocks gnutella because I have a friend down the hall from me that uses limewire as well, and my other friends use bearshare and ares. My firewalls are all configured, my xp is disabled and my mcafee is set to allow LW. Just to be sure that it wasn't mcafee I tried to connect without a firewall and it still wouldn't. I disabled the autoconnect on start up process and that didn't work either. Would you recommend going with the next step and setting up a proxy? I mean I never really used one before and I was just making seeing if I should have any concerns. Thanks.