LW 4.9.23 doesn't search

[alfred_bowman]

A few days ago I upgraded from LW 4.8.1. I came to regret it very quickly. LW would load ok. However, when I tried a search I got a popup telling me that the program was still connecting to the net and that I shouldn't expect much. I left it running for 20 minutes. Nothing had happened. I got nothing. I repeated this undertaking 3 times with the same result.

I understand that LW 4.9.23 has advantages and I would like to use it. Is there anything I can do? Has anyone else had this problem?

CPU: Intel Celeron 2.67 ghz
748 MB RAM
55 GB available on drive
Windows XP Home SP2
Norton Personal Firewall, Win XP firewall too
Intel integrated graphics

PS I found LW 4.8.1 in my Download folder and reinstalled it. As always, it works fine.