To those having sparse results problems:

As suggested by Greg, I installed the latest Limewire BETA, and holy shiznit, it is spectacular. I'm regularly seeing Net Stats of over 100TB. Maybe those stats are inflated, but my searches are turning up ACES. And the swarmed downloads (I think) is just great.

Go straight over to Limewire.com and give those developers $6 of your money for Limewire PRO and then use the latest BETA instead.

bravo,

mick