Okay, so now I'm on the verge of being pissed that I can't figure out and fix what's wrong because it seems to be just this machine/this version/my settings. I tried out 4.16.3 Pro on a MacBook Pro and had 5 connections within 10 SECONDS right out of the box, as it were. But when I changed all the preferences and settings so they matched what I'm using on the iBook running 4.12.11 Pro, I made just 1 connection that took close to a minute to get established, and then less than two minutes later it dropped. Another 5 minutes or so after that the program made another single connection, and that's going 12 minutes strong (also the time it took to exhaust the available host list). *heavy sigh* So my connection problems have nothing to do with our router or ISP; it's something else altogether, but I don't know what. AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!

Could this a case of the new version somehow screwing the old versions?? I should have looked to see what that momentary connection was with, but the second single connection was 4.14.10. Just when did 4.16 come out, around last November?