I've used LimeWire Pro for quite a while. Tonight I opened LimeWire after not using it for a while and noticed that my connection speed never got above fair connection. On the bottom right there was a message flashing on the LimeWire screen saying that there was an updated version available. I clicked that and paid the the $18.88 for the update and installed it. I still can't get above a fair connection and every search come up with 0 results. What's up with this?

Try this for your problem of no search results.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showpo...23&postcount=2

If that doesn't help then delete LW's preferences folder when LW's properly closed. See point 3 below (also point 2 if you've used much older LW versions in the past).
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This will kill all of your settings within LW's options, you'll have to go back through & reset things afterwards

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