Here's a couple of things that might help: (a) http://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewi...unk-files.html, __ (b) Problems with the search, __ (c) Hostiles List.

There does seem to be a double-edged problem with searches. One of them LW devs only discovered recently. Another is ultrapeers you are connected to might not be behaving properly & your search messages are hitting a brick wall somewhere along the way. Try not re-searching the same search terms too many times. Sometimes that can stop a UP responding to it. Closing LW & re-opening might help you connect to different UP's.

And kjmarket, if you're not happy with the latest LW you can always go back to using LW 4

There's a page to download old installers: Lime Wire » Download Out-Of-Date Installers

If you're using Pro, your personal download page has a link to 4.18.8 on the left hand side - 'Get LimeWire Classic'.

Thanks but I've already looked at The first link before and the hostiles list thing, neither of which helped. I've been looking at the second one,a dn I added the I.P.s as it said but it seems to have done nothing. I went into my advanced tool tab and removed the current ultrapeers it was connected to and let it search for more. No matter which 3 ultrapeers I connect to, it doesnt change my problem. Not interested in peerguardian. Not sure what this means but in advanced tools, it says I am a leaf node. You are behind a firewalla nd do not accept firewall transfers. When I click why it says port unstable? What does this mean exactly? I have my router/firewall set up properly, and use upnp with limewire...and I disable my firewall when using LW.

True..I could install an older version, but I really dont want to. I shouldnt have to do that just to go back to version 4 and less than satisfactory performance. I'd rather try to get the new version working, hopefully better than version 4 did/.