I've been running 2.5.3 for a few days on W2k, sharing about 215 files, cable modem through Linksys router.

1) When LimeWire is open, I notice that there are frequent, almost constant hard drive accesses (about one every 3 to 5 seconds). Looking at the process monitor, javaw.exe is eating up 20 to 35 megs of memory most times, and i can watch CPU usage jump from 0% to around 10% each time the drive is accessed. I'm not downloading, and no one is uploading, so I can't figure out why it's reading and writing so much. This has been a problem before, but it went away after I left the program running for a few hours. I left it overnight last night, and it's still making noise today.

2) Maybe it has something to do with all the shoddy Morpheus UPs, but I'd estimate that 95% of my downloads attempted from 2-4 star results immediately end up in Requery mode. The only reliable success I have is with one-star hosts that happen to be busy at the time. Perhaps 2.5 final could have a vendor filter...

Haven't had much trouble other than that (but I also haven't had any incredible 8 host downloads either )

Brandan L.