daduh are you sure it's not a firewall issue? XP has it's own firewall. It needs to be set to allow java & LW to pass! To quote the child of the Olympics God, murasame Go to Limewire->Preferences and click on the Bug Reports selection. There, click for an example and scroll down to the part where it says: Recieved incoming this session. If it says true then Limewire does not have a problem from Firewall. If it says false, Firewall(s) are blocking the connection. I hope this helps in figuring the cause of your problem.