OK, I think I was successfull in my attempt to "port forward". I was using azureus and I saw that my DL speed was blazing past 400+kbs.
So I was trying to Dl something on limewire and while the little bar meter in the lower left hand corner says"extremely strong connection" I'm stuck at 0.00kbs. (I had it flowing at 100kbs, then I paused it; after resuming is when it seemed to stop, all while all blue bars in the corner saying "extremely strong connection") what am I doing wrong?!