AAAHH HAAA! I figured it out! It was the avast! antivirus, not the firewalls. Avast has a P2P shield that prevents anything incoming or outgoing for P2P. After I disabled that, limewire worked again. Just thought I'd let you know that the problem is solved. But now I'm wondering why limewire didn't work even after I uninstalled both the firewalls and antivirus software. Ah well...at least it works.