@trooper
i myself am a major emule user, but have recently been turned on to the benefits of bittorrent.
the major problem i've always had with emule is the s l o w n e s s of my downloads. Harking from first napster, then audiogalaxy, then kaaza lite, i had grown used to comfortably hitting 50kb every time i was downloading, i was appaled to find that i rarely peaked 10kb on emule. Obviously to counter this i just downloaded five files at once.
Bittorrent on the other hand, offers brilliant speed. I've been d/l the new series of 24 thats just come to a close in america, whereas on emule i was looking at a good day or two to get an episode, now i have it in the same evening!
i wouldn't give up on bittorrent, for well known files check out suprnova.org do a search and find some stuff!