Thanks! The the gnut file fixed it. Though the "You are offline. Please check your internet connection." still shows up on the start page when you first start the program, i get all the way to a "turbo-charged connection", but when searching, it is pretty slow, it takes a while and not very many of the artist's songs show up, sometimes i have to search for the same artist twice to get results, and the results are often times different than the previous same search. And no, i haven't tried to use Oracle Java 7 with it yet, though i'm pretty sure that won't change anything much in terms of connection speeds and search results.