eDonkey does actually do something, doesn't it?

[twinspan]

Please tell me it's not all a massive hoax to drive me nuts , and then please, please tell me how to get it to work in the real world.

The story so far:

I have never ever got anything via eDonkey > > > > > > >

I start it up and either it makes no attempt to connect to a server, or whiles away the hours happily failing to connect to loads and loads of servers (see end of post).

So then i decide to fire up the eDonkey bot, which before I even try anything with it crashes first itself, then (even tho I killed it with Ctrl + Alt + Del) the entire OS.

So then I decide to take another look at the help info on the eDonkey site, maybe ask in the eDonkey forums... but the site is down. And now the eDonkey bot page is saying the Bot is being intentionally crashed, with no further info available/no more access to forums etc.

So then I decide to look in the Zeropaid eDonkey forum, but there's only so much teen moronics I can take before switching off ("eDonkey is fucking shit and anyone who uses it is a lamer retard" "no, eDonkey is fucking fantastic and anyone who doesn't love it is a lamer retard" repeat ad nauseam)

From server window:
Can't connect to: 80.133.30.252
Connecting to SCARAB'S QDSL GERMAN SERVER ....
Can't connect to: 213.20.226.115
Connecting to Rennserver Speedy!!! ....
Can't connect to: 80.135.236.235
Connecting to Donkey Master Warez ....
Can't connect to: 217.85.21.162
Connecting to EdONkeY RulEZ ....
Can't connect to: 217.228.9.248
Connecting to Wildthing ....
Can't connect to: 217.230.55.145
Connecting to -=ArrakiS=- French Edonkey Server ....
Can't connect to: 217.128.39.29
Connecting to WhiteGhost's Server ....
Can't connect to: 80.133.207.150
Connecting to NCTU-Taiwan eDonkey Server ....
Can't connect to: 140.113.27.100

and so on, and on till it eventually runs out of servers. (Altho once upon a time it did connect to a few servers with some mp3's, but every search for anything I was interested turned up zilch.)

Help me, NU!!!