I got around the ultrapeer sillyness this way:
first I tell it that my sytem has a T3 line
then I set the connection number to 50
and I remove the ultrapeer host. It automatically connects to the 50 servers.
If you are lucky, they are not ultrapeers.
As soon as you see some connections established, lower the connection number.
There you are... a 'normal' gnutella connection.

That reminds me that I still am declared as T3.
No idea if I fall back to ultrapeer if I lower that.

George