Hi, I had that same no host connection problem as well. Using Bearshare Lite and was prompted to update. Didn't know it would update me to the new and unimproved Bearshare regular v6.1. Uninstall and system restore no fix. Was about to go mental if I was about to lose my trusted BS lite (after recently losing Musicmatch to Yahoo). Anyway, replaced the connect file and it works again and life is back to normal. Aaron is da man!