I am also having problems connecting. I have done all of the instructions, read the FAQs, and I have searched and searched for a solution to my problem. My problem is, I can't connect at all! At the bottom of the limewire page, it says "connecting" instead of "connected", and when I try to do a search, an error messages pops up saying something like "you have not fully connected therefore you may not come up with any search results". I've left limewire open for a few days to see if it would help with the connection, and nothing. I've turned my firewalls on and off, and still nothing. I had no problems with version 4.8.0, it was when I upgraded to 4.8.1 when I started having problems. Can someone please help?!?!