I am fairly new to Bearshare (used it in the past but just got a new computer).

I am running Vista and Bearshare 8.1. I am using the Windows Firewall, AVG Free, and Spybot.

Bearshare was working fine for several weeks. But, today, when I restarted my computer it stopped downloading. Under downloads in the status column it shows that there are files pending and connecting but nothing is happening (the same files have been connecting for several hours without any progress). Bearshare shows that I am online. I have disabled Spybot and have added Bearshare as an exception in my firewall.

What am I doing wrong (or what the heck is going on)???