well, even after a complete reinstall on a new harddrive, limewire still disconnects me from the net when I quit the program...it will also cancel restart/shutdown if it is still running when I restart...HOWEVER...I found that if I hit the standby button on the modem when I quit limewire, it does NOT disconnect my cable modem. I have a motorola surfboard modem SB4200E . so as long as I remember to do that, it goes ok. don't know if that will do any good for those with startup disconnects.

Jeanne