Thanks for all your help, Lord.
I've got LW v4.18.8 up and running with Java 7, Update 5/FX 2.1.1 installed. OOB searching enabled - will watch for internet issues. Previously, I left OOB disabled in LPE because of the warnings about internet connection performance problems. It would start downloading files, then keep dropping them and telling me to search again (i.e., "stalled"). Later, I'd reopen LPE, and it would re-establish some downloads from before, so I'd have to keep reopening it again and again to get it to download MOST of what I'd asked it to. Still unreliable though. Don't know if that is anything fixable. As you said, it's a dynamic situation that depends on who's online at any given time. We'll see how it goes with LW 4.18.8. Any chance a normal install and run of a tweaked version of LW will be created for download in the future that'll run with whatever the newest versions of Java are that are installed with it?
Thanks again