so now ive double checked everything i mentioned- caught some differences so i had to make all the services have the same settings, and indeed i had a different java, so i switched that....i saw that incoming=true and i figured it would only be a matter of time....at the time the average uptime was only 3 mins, and now i wake up and avg is up tp 6531, all the files are finally hashed, and still no ultrapeer....when i switch over to the other os, boom! ultrapeering from the gate.

what else is l/w using as criteria?...eg. where else do i look?