Does ANYONE know how in the hell to fix this? This place is really deserted for a forum on a file-sharing program that's one of the more popular ones out there.

Come on. I've never met the topic starter and we're having the EXACT same problem. Anything else I do on the internet is just as fast as normal...but Limewire is completely useless as of a few weeks ago. This doesn't strike anyone else as sort of odd?