wayfastwhitey,

It's possible that the hosts you're trying to download from have either gone offline or have no upload slots free for you at the time. On the search results page, right click on the result > search more > get more results. See whether that gives the download a kick.

BlackHalo,

When you click to download the torrent, choose to save it to disk. Then right click on the torrent icon > open with > choose BitLord from the list & tick the box to always use this program for torrents. Hopefully that will make BitLord your default torrent handler