I downloaded the most recent version of lime wire and many of the "menus" you've mentioned don't even appear. I have no "force ip" button among other things. Either way... I'm a total noob when it comes to all this proxy/firewall stuff. I've searched around a bit trying to figure something out but I still can't get LW to connect. An error keeps popping up saying that there is no active internet connection or that a firewall is blocking it or something like that. I've tried turning off the firewalls... which I believe I have done, and still... nothing works.

So, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!