Has anyone been noticing that there are a large number of HUGE files floating around gnutella... doing searches for music is sometimes yeilding files of 1.7GB... all with MP3 extensions... most of which are missing the first letter or two... is this a buggy client or something??? a new type of worm???

I've always seen this. I think there is some older client that mis-reports the file size (showing bytes as k-bytes instead), but I don't know exactly which one.