>So what I have to do usualy is go through pages and pages of http://www.gnufrog.com listings >handpicking the odd ports and hope I can make a connection. once that has happened I ad that >first contact on Outgoing host to my 'Auto Connect Host' list hoping that it may (and it does >often enough) work another few times.

Couldn't you tell Phex that the standard ports are invalid?
Then they wouldn't appear in the host catcher and you'd have enough odd ports.

Would something like *.*.*.*:6346 in invalid host list block all "normal" hosts?