I fixed the problem, as well as a coupla other problems with the computer...

I made another user profile for Win XP, copied all of "My Documents" to the new profile, kept all the firewall settings exactly the same, and now it's good... i am not getting any intrustion alerts, AND Limewire is downloading at a really really good speed (as opposed to 2KB/s that i was getting on my old profile).

Dunno what this did, but maybe there was some problem that spyware/Antivirus/changing settings couldn't fix?
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By the way, i had set NPF to allow incomming and outgoing connections via port 6346 and to allow Limewire to use that port only... the problem was that limewire wasn't using the port when i was getting blocked access attempts.

meh... anyway, tis all fixed now.


Thanks to everyone for the help!!!

Aussie