Then that "new way of finding out if a host is available" obviously is broken. Used to be you'd see a bunch of files you liked, hit to download them, get a few, and the rest would "need more sources". You'd resume them, and get some, and the rest would "await sources". You'd resume them, get some, and a smaller number would "await sources". And so on. Now, however, in the exact same situation you get only a fraction as many of the files, because you get the same number the first time, the same number the second time, and then zero, until you restart Limewire.

This is NOT a change for the better. The same logic that was making it decide a file was "awaiting sources" that was in fact available and would download at the tap of the Resume button is evidently making it give up before it can even try. That logic is in error.

Of course, the real problem is that it prematurely gives up on a file that will actually download given another resume attempt or three. But at least before you could manually resume it when it decided to give up. Now once it decides to give up you have to restart.