can not download, have read lots of other posts still no help

[Nicholette]

here is the problem.... I can not download anything it always says need more sources. Very rarely and I do mean rarely I can download a song. I have set it to only give me 4 star ratings try to only download songs with multiple hosts ect. , Ive set Noton antivirus and Lavasoft firewall to give acess to limewire and I set Lavasoft to give javaw.exe as well.

Its not the licence requirement. Ive ran the limewire test, that was fine.

Limewire tells me Im behind a firewall and cannot recive direct connections regardless of if I have my firewall running or not. and if thats the case it still does not make sence when the rare occasion occurs that it will alow me to download a song.

Im running Win Xp. have 512 ram. Im up to date on Limewire and java. Have had these problems with the last to versions of limewire I was planning on going pro but Im not gonna pay the money if I cant download anything. Have read the sticky posts on this.. tried everything I can think of. Any suggestions?!?!?!