Thanks. I quit and relauched LW with firewall completely disabled and attempted to search again. I've now got green bars and no wall! Some results have just come through. The LW interface, however, seems quite sluggish and some parts of it fail to appear until I run the mouse over those areas, if you no what I mean? Is there a fix/reason for this?

By the way, thanks for the link - I'll follow that up and configure my firewall. PT777

Unfortunately the Jaguar operating system is not friendly to LW due to the earlier Java version. However you should be able to overcome the interface problem if you change skins. Go to View menu & choose Change skins.

Sorry OAH ... but the 2 of us together should be able to solve any crisis PT777 is having. lol :D

The processor is 466 MHz. I've got a G4. There's approx. 90GB of hardisc spare at the moment. I've got roughly 750mb of RAM.

You're right - it's Pipex. How do they curb p2p use?

They use programs like these 1. http://www.sandvine.com/products/p2p_element.asp,
2. http://www.ipp2p.org/docu_en.html, 3. http://www.p-cube.com/new_solutions/traffic_P2P.shtml They detect LW & can slow it's use. There's other techniques. I don't know which one Pipex uses ... OAH might have seen something about it.

Here's an example of how a p2p bandwidth shaper can work against Gnutella network: Bandwidth Shaper Sample - typical of how some ISP's use it (click on link) ie: giving priority to net surfing & low priorities to p2p sharing.

Very interesting. That's a bit mean of Pipex, or any other ISP. They aren't responsible for their users and what they choose to do. I suppose they're being leaned on by record companies, etc. I think you're right - I could update OSX. I keep meaning to investigate that. Anyway, time for bed - early start @ work tomorrow. Big thanks to you guys - Lord of.. & Hobo - for your wisdom, skills & support. Much appreciated. I'll be back on the Limewire tomorrow or Thursday - maybe catch up with you two then. Cheers. PT777