Here's a the link to Peerguardian's faq's..
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/faq/
What firewall have you recently installed and have you configured it properly ??
Also do you see a brick wall in front of the globe in limewire ??
You can preform a search using Bitzi, if you find a file you like, click on it and then scroll down until you see the magnet link for the Gnutella network and click on it...
Limewire will open up and endeavour to find sources for that file...If you see the need more sources click on find sources...
