Hmm, behind someone else's firewall... opened port 7688 here, but that would just allow incoming/outgoing until it get's to the outside firewall, so still only 8 connections. Any way to up the default connections?
Try -maxconnections= , I don't know if that will over-ride the 8 limit for nodes without incoming or not. So try the experiment and let us know whether it does or not.
( = some number, that is, not = whitespace character(s)).
-MarkM-
Sorry guys 
