Tried all the suggestions, read as many previous posts as I could...here's what I finally did.

My incomplete folder had nothing in there but I knew that's where LW saves all those files, so I simply deleted it.

I rebooted my PC and then saw over 27 GB of partially downloaded files, obviously I had this problem for awhile. I deleted the contents.

When I restarted LW, the 20 files that kept trying to connect were gone. As I wanted.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Hope this is of help to someone else in the future.