Sounds like the files you're trying to dwnld are very popular. When you 1st open LW, all the files qill be queued to try to connect. I find it's best to wait a few mins for things to settle down. personally, I click on the Status heading until there's an arrow pointing up. This arranges all files so that those that are queud areat the bottom of the list & those that are dwnlding/connecting are at the top & the others are in-between. And the completed dwnlds are listed at the very top. This helps u to know when there are no more queud files from the startup process (which can take a few mins.) Then LW will be at its best for searching for sources (otherwise those that are queung to connect will steal valuable bandwidth.)

Then do a search for what you want. And then select the file u want to dwnld. If it should possibly be put in a queu, then that suggests you're trying to do too much with LW at one time; eg- attempting to dwnld too many files at once (or it still hasn't finished its opening up process where it checks for immediate connection with all its incomplete files.)

Hope this is of some help. Please try my suggestions. If you have & u still have probs, then post back. Cheers.