OK Iv now downloaded an old bearshare version and it works perfectly but for one quite significant thing.

When I close the program or shut down my computer, and then start the program up again all my previous download progress is lost. So for example if Im downloading a boxing fight thats 400megs in size and it gets to 100megs by the time I want to shut my computer down. Then when I start the program up again all that 100meg progress is gone and I have to start all over again.

This is unusual as Iv never had this problem before with any version of bearshare of bearflix in the many years Iv been using the application.