Been running LimeWire v2.8.6 on my Mac and, with it, after just a short period of operation, am accustomed to seeing like 2500 hosts/600K files. So now I install v2.9.6, then 2.9.7 and, in similar circumstances, I now only get 1000 hosts/275K files or so.

What's that all about?

So far as I'm concerned, the old version gets the nod.