Hmm, I have kind of a small suspicion.
Try redeleting the preferences.

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LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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Thank you all for your help.. i now have limewire up and running at its wonderful best.. and its all thanks to YOU!!!!.. for those of you getting agro with these guys ( and girls ?) in the words of Peerless... patience is a virtue!!.. they are bending over backwards to come up with workable solutions to the problems being put here.. remember..ALL the different perspectives they have to view it from.. with the little information normally given.. and yet they STILL come up with winning formulas...im very pleased and impressed with the prompt and thoughtful help ive been given here.. and think you should all give yourselves pats on your backs..you ROCK!!

ok so i'm going to try to delete my preferences. could someone please guide me through how to do that. when i see "/Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire", i have no clue what thats supposed to mean. i have OSX if that helps at all.

There's several ways you can find them. One is to do a search for limewire & then delete all traces of it. But the reference you were given can be more easily understood from the image below.

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Hi guys.. me again.. ok... i HAD LW working at its wonderful best yesterday.. but today.. when ive tried it... its not connecting again.. keeps telling me im either not connected to internet or firewall blocked.. i know im connected.. so Lord of the Rings, i looked at the bug report like you recommended before.. and now im getting recieved incoming this session: false.. which i know means im blocking it somehow with firewall right? but nothing has been changed since yesterday with my settings.. and when i look in my firewall thingy... LW is still ticked as exceptions.. with the ports added as per yesterday when i had excellent cnnection.. is it worth doing that deleting preferences thingy again? or will that make no difference if its a firewall glitch? AND .. if i do that.. will i loose the list of songs ive got d'ling at the moment and in the library?... im sorry to keep bothering you.. but i really like LW.. and the support you give.. so am determined not to give up on it... thanks for any assistance you can give me.. i look forward to your slant on it.. Thanks.. Maz.. from Australia

When I tried what it said on page 1 I think I deleted the wrong thing.I have win.XP and the file said props or something so I deleted it but now all my files are GONE!!! help me. How can I get them back.There were almost a 100 of them!!!

never mind I fixed my problem but it still won't connect right.I will have a good connection for about 2 min. and then connecting and it really messes with me when i want to search for something.

I've worked on this connection problem a couple of times in the last couple of months. Right when I think I've got it fixed, I find I don't really. It's getting real time consuming. Time I don't have. I'm frustrated.

Supply many more specifics, such as details of probs, os version, comp specifics, java version, lw version, connection type, firewalls/routrs, etc. & I'm sure somebody will get back to you.

i am running win xp w/ dsl. tried the delete pref thing in documents and settings. tried the disabling of tip box and disabled the auto connect when launching lw. nothing has worked. slowly been going the last 2 weeks. please help...