I checked again.... the bars never go green. It's like its trying to connect but never does. So it now appears I'm never fully connected but I don't get it because it appears LW loads fine and I can navigate around the site, but can't pull any content.

It also says in the bottom left corner "Limewire detects a firewall". As I stated earlier, I did go in to be sure Limewire has full access and it does.