Lord, you may want to view the thread "Sharing music ripped with iTunes broken?" in the OS X forum, as what this guy is talking about is exactly what is happening to me. IOW, Limewire says they are being shared, but they are NOT being shared. I get hits, but no one downloads the files from me. So I guess I am talking about sharing within the LW network, not my home network. (Probably shoulda stipulated that first, sorry)

The very same files that LW says are there in LW prefs, are NOT there when I check from other people's computers. The only way these files are seen is when I use another computer in my house on our wireless network, and then of course LW signals this as putting the file in all blue stars. Otherwise these songs are invisible to everyone.