as the origional poster i have to disagree with scud on a couple things
1st dont get rid of forced ip, i know where ur going with teh invalid frustrating ip's but it would be better to just program limewire to drop those ppl off the network i use forced ip cuz im behind a firewall

2nd i like being able to search for the exact filename not to resume but because it was a unique file i wanted while searching on a general topic and i dont want 2 go thru 2000 files to find it again

i do agree about cuting off the freeloaders at teh search instead of the download it will be less frustrating for both
it would be especially great if they got a freeloader error message somehow so they would know 2 share files

i also would like ot see a list of new features and ojce again an approximate release date