Is it still freezing on you? The question is whether the same problem is happening.

* We need to know more about your set up: System details - help us to help you (click on blue link); eg: are you seeing the brick wall? If yes this could be limiting your searches.


Also for searching & filtering techniques see these:
1. How to find music

2. See http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...45&postcount=2

3. Beware of Fake files in search results

4. Direct instructions to eliminate porn from results

5. If you are receiving a lot of junk files in your searches, then you can control-click the search result & ban the hosts that are offering those junk or fake files.