Oops! one more thing. The "error" box pops up and says " it does not appear this computer has an internet connection, or a firewall is blocking access" Beside the windows XP SP2 firewall I have Norton antivirus. I'm told by another thread that while XP's SP2 firewall is on and configured with the appropriate info. as posted in the support section, it should not affect Limewire. And I don't think Norton Antivirus has anything to do with this. Only Norton's Personal Firewall is mentioned, which I do not have. What do you figure?