Thank you, LOTR! The links to the other posts was a great help. I'll try wiping out my downloads.txt and downloads.bak, and I'll pump up the uploads a bit, and I'll be a bit more patient upon restarting LW to see if they start up on their own again.

And yeah, I know the RAM's pretty low and the operating system is the scum of the universe ... it was really good when I bought the computer, but that was a long time ago. I'd love to have a new PC with all the bells and whistles, but I'd have to use a couple month's mortgage payments to do it ... I'd have a great computer and no house!