ok, ive done everything everyone's said to do throughout this 45-page thread. ive deleated the .limewire thing, disabled the tips, disabled the speed thing, and nothing worked. i downloaded kazaa and it worked, but i hate kazaa and limewire is in fact better. so now i assume that my problem has to do with my ISP, as you have suggested could be a problem. so what do i do to fix it? i have windows xp and dsl. someone please help.