I understand how you feel. I'm running Vista, McAfee, and LW and LimeWire connects when it want to and never does pull up anything when I search. Although, I am able to run all of messenger programs (AIM, Windows Live, and Yahoo!). I don't want to get rid of McAfee because I done that when I was having issues before and they had me remove it and reinstall it. LimeWire worked then. Well, now, it doesn't. I think these programs are starting to get minds of their own...