No, Birdy, I haven't tried either of these solutions. When I trade in my old car for a brand new one, I don't expect to have to jump start the new one every few days or need to remove its radio to ensure consistent starting. So, I expect LimeWire to clean up after itself when installing a new version and to be stable without me having to become a LW mechanic. I don't mean to be disrespectful to you or the LW developers, I'm just stating what I think are reasonable expectations for a software product that I purchased.

I've used several prior versions of LW Pro to download over 5000 files in the last 14 months and --> didn't have a single fail to connect incident. Then, I upgraded to LW Pro 4.16 and now I have random, but regular, connection issues associated with the gnutella.net file. Since I'm not having any file corruption issues with any other software on my computer, this clearly indicates to me that there is an issue with the gnutella.net file that was introduced in version 4.16.

My only purpose in posting was to let the LW developers know that there was a connection problem associated with the gnutella.net file introduced in version 4.16 that will negatively affect at least some users. If I can be of any assistance to them in resolving this issue, they can contact me by email.