Erin, same thing happened to me. I now use BitTornado. I did everything the Azureus help files said to do, and then heard from Dana I wasn't alone in my grief, and promptly stopped troubleshooting.

I only use BitTornado because it was the first thing I downloaded. It's not nifty like Azureus used to be, with the multiple downloads in one interface, or anything.

I accidentally started Azureus this morning, and it complained about my Java version (which it didn't do any other time between upgrade and now) -- maybe this weekend I'll upgrade and see if that fixes it.

Thanks, ita. I'll try Bit Tornado.

I hate updates. I had no problems whatsoever with Azureus until I updated it.

This is all hypothetical until my computer arrives, but people who've used both, what (if any), are the significant differences between Firefox and Camino for OSX?

Firefox is updated more often than Camino, so it will have fewer bugs, but beyond that, it's pretty much a matter of trying them both and seeing which one you like the best.

BitTornado has hidden settings you can play with. "Advanced" is scary but helpful

My PC is now tidily downloading Veronica Mars. I've been missing my TV fix this week, dammit!

Thanks again.

Okay, I'm loving Safari on OS 10.3.9 -- what are the benefits of Firefox over Safari?

From what I can tell (having installed it on the G5 here at work), Firefox for OSX seems pretty identical to the Windows version, so I'll probably stick with that. Thanks.

I have not chosen to update Azureus when it asks me to. Sounds like I shouldn't? I'm on Windows.

This is all hypothetical until my computer arrives, but people who've used both, what (if any), are the significant differences between Firefox and Camino for OSX?

Both Firefox and Camino were giving me some stability troubles in Tiger, just as a warning. I've switched back to Safari for the duration. Give Safari a try before downloading the others and see if you hate it - it's really speedy, and if it loads all your websites and you don't crave something specific in Firefox, you might find it's better for you.-

Steph: the main advantages Firefox and Camino have over Safari are the Gecko rendering engine, which is more likely to be supported on custom websites (like the one I use to sign up for courses here at Tech) and increased flexibility due to the whole open source nature of the products. Within the two, Camino is a native Mac OS X application, so you get things like Services support (which I love), whereas Firefox, not so much, but Firefox has all those fancy-pants plugins that some people really love, like the Deepest Sender LJ client.

Really, it's all about getting which features you want.

Re: Azureus - I've had no problems with the upgrade, but I use a specific tracker only. However, I have heard that upgrading to the latest Java is a really really good thing to try if you're having troubles.