So let me se if I have this straight... Having Limewire do a search when the host it's downloading from is lost would somehow flood the system with searches. Yet the users who sit there requesting search after search simply to "keep the ball in play," don't.

Well the solution is simple if we take your comment to its logical conclusion: Ban all searches and there will be no traffic at all.

Am I being a smart-***? Certainly. But if the point of downloading is to actually get the file, and you care about doing it quickly...

One of the things a forty-year long career in computer design has taught me is that saying, "We've never done that," is hardly the way to be in the forefront, product-wise.

Jay