Questions here regarding downloads already initiated and "in progress":

I'm running LW v4.18.8 due to the problems running the newest versions of Java with any version-5 edition, including LPE. When running LPE, before the Java problem arose, to get at least some previously-started downloads to resume again upon reopening it on later occasions, I just ran new searches, without initiating any new downloads from them - don't know why that helped get previously-started downloads to resume again - it just did, but not predictably.

Now, in v4.18.8 - after ensuring all 5 connection-strength bars are showing in-full in the bottom-left corner of the interface - when I click to download files from the searches I've just run at that time, i.e., during any given session of running LW, it downloads a large number of them at once, then and there. However, if I save my selected downloads, and the partially-completed downloads in the Incomplete folder, when I close LW - upon reopening it again any time afterwords - it only picks up on a few of the downloads started from before - and will drop one, and pick up on another, unpredictably, while running.

Some downloads get as far as 96% done and then get dropped all of the sudden, while others just sit at 0%, with LW saying "Awaiting Sources" or "Waiting on Busy Hosts", again, for all but a couple of them, and regardless of how many times I click to "resume" each download. Neither running new searches, nor initiating new downloads, gets the previous downloads to start up again either.

Lastly, it seems as though I must keep my monitor turned on and open to the LW interface to get LW to pick up & resume those few downloads. If I either am busy doing other things on my PC so LW's interface isn't on top, minimize the LW interface, or turn my monitor off so as not to waste having it on when I don't need to see my screen display, LW drops downloads. When I display its interface again later, it will start connecting to dropped downloads again. This makes no sense and should not be happening since LW is running and should work regardless - simply being displayed shouldn't make a lick of difference either way.

Is there anything to be done to get previously-started downloads to resume again, any time I reopen LW, and get them to complete? Even if I start up my PC first thing every day, open LW, get a full-strength connection showing, and then click on "resume download" for all the ones in there from before, I only get a few that resume - but there are also days when it sits saying a couple of downloads are "waiting in line", while the rest are "awaiting sources"/"waiting on busy hosts" - all day long!

Very annoying and time consuming. PLEASE HELP.