I'm not a Bearshare person but, I am aware you can get that yellow indicator issue if you have 2 firewalls running. I might be wrong in this case. Do you also have XP firewall or another running as well? If so, if you disable it you'll probably find ZA will start behaving normally. Yes 2 firewalls can interfere with each other. (For XP FW: go to the control panel, double click on Windoze Firewall, check the disable box.)