Hi...

you can past into Phex if you press CTRL-v in the address box.
Actually you are right. This is not the best way to run a program.
The problem is that many of the AutoConnect Host are overloaded. If you find some hosts that are often online I recommend you to add them to your AutoConnect host list.
Phex always checks for new addresses and stores them. But you need to have running servers that provide new addresses when you connect to them.
In the next release there will be a little improvement for the host catcher. But the main problem is still the lack of auto connect hosts currently.

Gregor