wiggindesigns, could you PLZ take out the part about Kad from your post? Your guide is good and informative, but the part about Kad is simply wrong and misleading for normal users as Shareaza cannot connect to the ed2k-kademlia DHT, as the implementation is incomplete for now. This is something that will be coded after our BT implementation is up-to-date.
Many thanks for the time you took to write your explanations. The community needs people like you... you might be interested in writing something in this direction/copying your post into the wiki...?