Well, if the downloads would download instead of stopping at 47% and "awaiting sources" all the bloody time maybe I'd have less of them in my queue. In any case, Limewire writing invalid data to the downloads.dat file is a bug any way you slice it. It simply shouldn't, and it shouldn't care how big the thing is as long as there's sufficient disk space either. What ever happened to scalability?

Keep Moore's Law in mind -- people are downloading hundreds or even thousands of files a day and are storing tens of thousands. By 2010, they'll be downloading thousands and storing hundreds of thousands.

Will Limewire scale to function well for these people, granted that they will have 5 and 6 GHz CPUs and several GB of RAM and a TB or more of hard drive space at that point? If it won't, everyone currently using Limewire will switch to something else by 2010.