I have been using LW sucessfully until yesterday... Whilst attempting to make a selection to dl music rather than the song a link to other "free" dl programs came up, this happened several times. When I was able to make a song selection it remained queued and awaiting sources for hours... and still is awaiting even after I clicked find sources.... Help please any suggestions??

See Sponsored Results (click on link) to get an understanding about this. Add Sponsored & ipod & perhaps free to your keyword filters; see How to use the Keyword Filter

I have included those words in the filter, thank you for that suggestion... how do i get the songs i am trying to dl to dl nothing seems to be happening when songs are usually dl in less than a minute normally?

Look at other options in the search results. If there are none & only the sponsored spam is showing up, then you need to vary your search technique or else, nobody is sharing those particular files (or is online at that time.)
Try using both audio & All Types search. eg: Find one by the same artist, then browse host & they may have more.

thank you so much it seems to have worked at least i now have action and a song dl