Thanks for all your help, Lord.

I've got LW v4.18.8 up and running with Java 7, Update 5/FX 2.1.1 installed. OOB searching enabled - will watch for internet issues. Previously, I left OOB disabled in LPE because of the warnings about internet connection performance problems. It would start downloading files, then keep dropping them and telling me to search again (i.e., "stalled"). Later, I'd reopen LPE, and it would re-establish some downloads from before, so I'd have to keep reopening it again and again to get it to download MOST of what I'd asked it to. Still unreliable though. Don't know if that is anything fixable. As you said, it's a dynamic situation that depends on who's online at any given time. We'll see how it goes with LW 4.18.8. Any chance a normal install and run of a tweaked version of LW will be created for download in the future that'll run with whatever the newest versions of Java are that are installed with it?

Thanks again

I have no idea if there are enthusiasts out there doing any development work with the LW source code. Though I've noticed the source code for LPE has been downloaded a couple of dozen times this year.
File_Girl71 might be able to tweak something but we shall see.
I'm not expecting to see anything in the near future, though would be good if there was.