Thank you, Hobo.

I originally had ultrapeer capabilities disabled, and was connecting as a leaf. I have now re-enabled ultrapeer capabilities, but I am still connecting as a leaf. It has made little difference to the symptoms - the connections still drop, but the average time to dropping has gone up to about 20 seconds from about 5 seconds.

There's another problem that I've noticed with the new version of LimeWire. Graphics are EXTREMELY slow. I'm used to slow graphics because of my antique computer, but it's ridiculous now. If I open another window (say, this one, where I'm typing in my post) while LimeWire is running, then when I close this window, it takes up to ten minutes for LimeWire to redraw its screen. Any ideas?

Thanks again.