Cheers, I'll be going through all the suggestions now...

Yep in near the billabong and BBQ in Australia... its now 5.22pm here.

I have found one thing that seems to work... I moved all the files inside my downloads/sharing folder into a new folder so that that my downloads/sharing folder is empty... now it doesnt seem to freeze or stall. The problem with this is now i now can't share with anyone... which isn't very good.

Also as soon as i put the files back into the folder it freezes again

I also changed the Java to 1.5 and it seems to work ok...

*** wondering if this helps to solve the mysterious problem***

OK--that confirms that it is a problem with the "verifying" part.

Does it also freeze when completing a larger download? The download will show "verifying file."

It freezes when i do searches or downloads... doesnt seem to matter if it is a big or small files. Even if i just search for files and do not have anything downloading it freezes.

I have tried it numerous times today with no files in the sharing folder and it seems to work ok, only get freezes every now and then.. especially if i use other programs like adobe products etc...but nothing like what it did when i did have files in there...

Hey peoples,

Just thought i'd let you know that the problem seems to have gone away... i retried all the suggestions you made and now its not freezing or anything.

Thanks Heaps Everyone!

Peace Out!

Good to hear.

In the meantime, I've managed to make my situation worse trying to duplicate yours

btw, an expert did take a look but there was no easy answer.

Damn sorry to hear that.... Thanks again, i hope you can fix your problem.

Take it easy

Bye for now