thanks for the input guys,

have done a few "comparison tests" between my old shareware and Limewire and now have to admit that Limewire is FAST compared to the other, however the search results are still extremely poor, as an example I did a search for music vids of my fave band, Limewire only ever finds a few (typically the ones I already have) whilst the other shareware finds double the amount including several that Limewire can only dream about.