adam, or anyone: I'm having big problems connecting after a clean install (a few uploads are going through), even after letting it run all night with a direct connection to the internet. I tried reverting to older versions and the usual troubleshooting.
I'm trying on a different computer next.

Is the gnutella.net file the only one that supplies and stores the IP's , or are those retrieved from some other system file too?

Did anything change in the code that would make connections so difficult?