I upgraded to Limewire pro over the weekend and I haven't really notice anything other than looks that mades the program any better than any other versions. Would someone care to enlighten me as to what unseen improvements I am receiving? Did I waste my money? Am I being scammed?

Providing you bought Pro from the official site Lime Wire » Official Website & Free Download « then you haven't been scammed.

Pro connects you to 5 ultrapeers compared to basic's 3, so the potential for better search results is there. You'll probably notice the difference in search results more if you're searching for rarer files. Pro lets you connect to a couple more hosts for download (10 hosts, or 14 if you have a T3 connection) so the potential is there for higher download speeds. Pro gives you access to email support for 6 months, which basic doesn't offer.

And, of course, the Pro payment helps towards the future development of LW.

I loaded a torrent file last night and it seemed to download faster than the torrent program I use, but LW didn't show the files within the torrent like the other program does. Why is this?

I don't know why, torrents are a mystery to me. Maybe somebody else here can answer that.

Nothing personal, but I seem to be asking questions NOONE is able to answer.

Nobody @ L/W seems to give a ............................