the main screeen doesnt matter. go to options when u open edonkey. there check everything to the right, the always stay connected & reconect on loss etc.
then on the left set your speeds, u should know there's a 1to4 ratio, so if u set 5kb/sec speed u can dl only at 20kb/sec 6kb/sec upload will give u 24kb/sec download and so on. but if u set upload to 10kb/sec u can set download speed to 0kb/sec(it means machine default u can download all u can get)
then look below that and specify where it should put your files , then even below that check connections, i set mine to 350-400 connections. that's usually enough. click ok then go to some server lists that people have gave u here already or find some at edonkey2000.com sharereactor.com or somewhere else. then find files u want to dl and wait a little till download get started. sometimes it will take some time to dowload 1 file the others it will be pretty fast. good luck