Have you checked to see whether your ISP is blocking p2p? If more than one p2p app won't work, sounds to me like an ISP issue.

Try to download a magnet link, see LOTR's post here
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...download+speed

Just make sure your LW is set up for optimal performance
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=27036
Are you seeing the firewall icon?

No my ISP doesn't block p2p. I live on a Marine Corps base and people around me can use limewire fine. Although I've heard that ISP's only block certain users. I think this issue goes beyond some of the newbie solutions.(not trying to offend any of the newbies though). All the connection bars in the bottom left corner are green. However there is something unusual about the firewall icon. When i first start LW there is a wall infront of the globe that indicates a firewall however i'm not running any firewalls though. After about 5 minutes the wall disappears without me even configuring anything. So i'm connected to LW but i cant download anything faster then 3kb and most of the time the downloads are only 1 or 0kb per second

Did you try downloading a magnet link? See what kind of speeds you get for that.