Hi sebdude

The new 2.9.6 beta version has eliminated the requery message (and requeries).

If your common host stayed up and was accepting connections, you should have been able to browse and download each other's files. Once the files started to download, you don't need the host to stay up in the connections--connections are used for searches, not downloads. I don't know if uploads in progress depend on hosts remaining active in the connections pane.

I'd like to send files to friends too, so I hope you can work this out. Another possibility: "Magnet" links sound like they are useful for emailing a link to files you can share with friends, but I don't know much about how to format one. (they're mentioned with links in the Limewire Beta sections)

Keep us posted--sounds like a useful experiment.