I paid $10.00 for six months of LimeWire Pro upgrades. $24 for a year sounds like a raw deal. As to your inability to download much of anything, that is a problem that seems to be popping up a lot with the 2.9 Pro release. I appear to be one of the luckiest people on the network at this time as I am downloading at blazing speeds, much faster then I did before 2.9 and since this has been going on a few months I no longer see my speed as a fluke. I do not have any answers for you, but I DO think LimeWire and p2p in general needs to be more up front about just how touch and go it all is. Lots of people pay money for pro editions they believe will work like the old Napster, basically glitch free. They really are not there yet with p2p. Given that p2p is basically facilitating an activity that has been determind to be illegal (you don't have to tell me about all the other uses, I know that already) I would not expect p2p in general or the Gnutella network to improve dramatically any time soon. I think everyone should think twice before they pay for this or any p2p software, but I think getting your money back is highly unlikely at best.

katgirl