Unfortunately, when you crash, you will always lose your downloads list and there is no provision for making a separate list within Limewire (except, of course, that the Incomplete file will hold all the partials and could represent an aide-memoire for you). I run a separate want list that I chip away at over the months. As I collector of less popular music myself, I enjoy the hunt. But a word of clarification. The point of keeping a long list of incomplete downloads has been removed. Earlier versions of Limewire used to send out requests for reconnection. This no longer operates. so the only point of keeping a "full" download tray of incompletes is as a want list. My own strategy is to kill a download the moment it becomes obvious that it is not going to be bullied to a conclusion. The incomplete file remains available for the next time I repeat the search and attempt reconnection so I lose nothing by deleting it. And, although it is good to be sociable, I would disable the ultrapeer option and concentrate on simple upload and download as a leaf. You are obviously the kind of person we want on Gnutella but experience shows that operating as an ultrapeer eats bandwidth and, unless you are running an unlimited broadband account like mine, it may be too expensive for you to leave Limewire up passively to operate as an ultrapeer while you do other things.

Thanks for taking the trouble to ask the right questions. If anything is not clear from this, come back.