didn't work. any other ideas. i've gone through the rest of the tools/options to make sure everything is set correctly, seems to be. what else am i not thinking of? firewall, options, setup, isp connection, they're all good, can't figure it out. doesn't make sense because it was working fine up until about a month ago and then out of nowhere stopped downloading one day. does limewire basic have any known conflicts with other programs, peripherals, anti-virus, video cards, etc, something i may have unwittingly installed, or is there a java or windows component that i may have unwittingly unistalled or deleted during a computer cleanout that is required by limewire? thx for the reply.

hish