Hy,
reply to This thing is stuffed...
Sounds like a memory problem to me. How many MB of RAM do You have?
I wouldn't recomend java swing applications like phex for anything with less than 128MB ram.

reply to Searching/downloading
> hassles happen when you get too many hits.
What do You mean by this. It doesn't sound very good.
>start downloading from a diffent one when the original download/host fails.
Yes it does. It would even continue an aborted transmission with a file from a different host. It will search for files with same filesize and similar sounding names. Sometimes You wan't to narrow down the search for names by giving a special search term.
Alexander