Up till last night I was using Limewire 2.3.2, and I had few complaints.
Then I got the notice about the new version, and I downloaded & installed 2.4.2. Since then I've had nothing but trouble.

Yes, I get connected without problems when the program starts. But when I start getting kicked off, the interface won't seek out new connections like it used to. I checked in the options to see that the host cache sites were there (i.e. router.limewire.com, connect1.gnutellanet.com, etc.) and they are. So I added them manually in the connections display. It would search them once, and if no connections could be made it stopped looking.

And once I did that manual connection attempt once, it no longer worked. The GUI wouldn't do anything.

The Connect title in the menu does nothing at all.

I am ready to trash the new install and put 2.3.2 back into action, unless someone can tell me what is wrong!

I'm not behind any kind of firewall, I'm running a modem connection and I've never had a connection problem before. Maybe someone knows the secret here.