help for newbie with eMule

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Using eMule, I always get a Low ID message, but am a newbie who knows diddly-squat (nothing!) about eMule and ports and port-forwarding and hashes and AICHes and seeds and KADS and sources, and so on!
I don't have a router, so I don't think I need to know anything about port forwarding, do I? That much I think I understood from research into this topic!
And, whatever server eventually connects I always get this message "You have a lowid. Please review your network config and/or your settings."
I'm using Emule Plus v1.2e: I did try a newer version but switched back to 1.2e as the newer one went even more slowly.
I am using a pc with Windows XP Pro v2002, with service packs 2 and 3. My CPU is an AMD Sempron, running at 1.67gHz, with 512meg of ram. My internet connection is from a local Internet Provider which is pretty good - torrent downloads sometimes go faster than 1meg but usually are around 500 to 700k.
I have no idea how to "review my network config and/or my settings" as suggested by the eMule message. I have done some research on the topics in various eMule blogs, as well as on FLM's eMule Help Section, but am still lost in a thick fog.
An action (as suggested by ptguardin recently) such as "simple as putting your tag plus FLM in your emule client" loses me completely. I also have no idea how to SAFELY share other movies on eMule... so that other people may download OT stuff that they may like and don't have.
If someone from FLM could take the time and trouble to throw me a few pointers or a do simple walk-through, it would be much appreciated.
I hope I posted this in the correct FLM Section - or should it have gone into the eMule Help Section? Thanks for your suggestion today, ptguardian... hopefully I will become a little but more familiar with the eMule world.