Hi Seeker,
thx for your good investigation work. Damn, it gets boring to repeat it, but's true.
Good to know, what happens and how Xolox gets his initially IPs. So I think one of the most important feature in a new version could be: not to hardcode host caches, no IPs as you said and store them into a file e.g. 'hostchaches.txt'.

About your question: Setting registry entry 'firsttime' to 'true', does not help, actually it is equivalent with deleting the complete Xolox branch... both results in setup setting from scratch, no plausabilty checks are done for hostslist.txt.

Bye, Moak

PS: Aren't more programmers willing to offer the XOlox team assistance in coding and is the Xolox team interested?