Limewire + OSX + College = HEADACHE

I'm also experiencing lots of problems with Limewire in OSX. This is my first time trying to use it and I've heard great things about it but haven't seen a single one of these "great things" yet. I open the program and have tried letting it sit for 10, even 20 minutes to find servers/hosts or whatever and it doesn't do squat. Under my connections tab there are several different addresses or IPs (I don't know) under the host category and then under status it reads "connecting" it does it's thing (which is nothing but looks like its trying to) and then finnally gives up and all my hosts go away and the little dot in the bottom left corner turns red. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?! Is this a problem at my school? Is this Limewire? Please help, I'm going through withdraw of being able to download music, etc...
Thanks