Hi Janet:

Yep, a fair assessment. For me, I have trouble telling if uploads are completing because of the mystery chunk stats and no progress metering (the display bug).

I also see a lot of 'transer interrupted' messages, many of which had made it through the qeue and were active uploads.

And the time the program will run before crashing is unpredictable. Sometimes it will run for a couple of hours, sometimes for 2 days. It's a doo doo shoot when I wake up the monitor in the morning, will I see the monitoring window, or the unexpected quit dialog box.

On a positive note, I have been able to filter some of the spam hosts, who tend to own large ip blocks and multiple servers. Slowly I am gathering ips and blocking them.

I turn off chatting, it is of no interest to me. I prefer the 'browse host' feature ala Napster.
You are fortunate to be outside the US in respect to upcoming attempts by Microsoft and the RIAA to put more pressure on the networks. Best to use whatever means now to gather all of your favorite music.