re: "There is no solution for this problem, and you will experience this with any filesharing app you use"...

I beg to differ. Macster never gave me a mesage like that... Aimster never gave me a message like that and neither gave me heartache like that. Asking someone to leave their computer running 24/7 in order to download small (or large) files is ridiculous.
I have found out that if a 'requery' message comes up it is sometimes helpful to close Limewire and then re-open. On re-open I will get another 1% or 3% to download before 'requery' shows up again. I have plodded along downloading a file 2 or 3% at a time until it finally completes. Now... how dumb is that??

If songs or files aren't available, why not just not make them visible? If we don't see 'em we won't %&$#@@%^ or lives away downloading at the ridiculous rate being a Limewire subscriber dictates.