Thanks you have given me quite a bit to digest s:-)

I am just trying acqlite and was initially puzzled by it reporting no connection (many others got it too) and failure to search or download. I got past that by a stupid technique. Think I can blame OSX for that.

I don't have any firewall on at all and it is as poor at transferring as LimeWire. Uploads seem to work much better than DLs, but that is no consolation s:-(

Have to give Poisoned its due. It works very well indeed, bar a few bugs in the latest release which i haven't fixed up in Panther.