Wow! I have been working on this for hours and this solved almost everything. Connection problems, and the very frustrating options (lack of apply button) problems and the out of alignment text problems. Thank'ee sai. Did you notice that it conects through java instead of lime wire? Could that have been the problem? Zone alarm alerted me that it was javaw.exe accessing the net not lime wire. You are awsome thank you so much for the discovery.

Nic