I kinda figured there is a corruption issue here. Had a similar situation a few years ago with compatibility/corruption of D/L's with Zone Alarm (using McAfee now--it's free for me for a little while longer) and at that time I found on the ZA site a way to fix the problem and that was by going into the .LIB folder and deleting certain files.
Is this an option for my situation or is it more logical to do a complete uninstall/reinstall to get back to square 1 again? I know I'm going to lose all the incomplete downloads (right? since they are corrupted in the hash value only not the content, and what's the sense of keeping them if...). Right now even any new D/L that is incomplete during a session is initially listed in black but if I shut down LW and restart hours later, the same file is now listed in red
thanks again