Hi! I'm sorry about that. I certainly don't begrudge you your break!

I am rechecking all my ports, now. I will verify that the appropriate ports are available for the client.

I'm also going to upgrade the the latest version as I see 4.12.8 is now out. My fingers are crossed something in the new version or the process of upgrading will help.

Also, what's the story on Listening Port and Router Configuration? My *guess* is that if I use Manual Port Forward set to 6346 and port forward 6346 from my firewall I'm good (and it doesn't matter that Listen on Port is set to some other arbitrary port). Is my guess correct?

Thanks!

OK,

I downloaded and re-installed LW on my Linux box. Still 1 green bar, 4 red. No connectivity.

I then downloaded and installed the Windows client to a windows system on my network running W2kAE. It installed, configed, and ran like a champ. I had 5 green bars seconds after launch--with no firewall pre-config or port forwarding to the W2k box (this is how I designed my firewall to work--transparently to users on the private network).

This leads me to believe that the upgrade of my firewall may have been ancillary to the start of the problem and that the problem is probably on the client system.

Will wiping my LimeWire directory completely remove my LW install? I ask this because that's what I did but when I re-installed it still knew my preferences (though I did verify I was running the new version, 4.2.8).

Thanks!