Just to shorten this post, I put your quote in a spoiler
Does Ghost ever restart his eMule client? Because this might be the only possible reasoning as to why I haven't been able to connect with him
I can be known to be a little impatient and before I knew about all this, I did from time to time stop and resume the downloads if nothing was happening to see if that would fix the download.. If I knew this was a feature, I wouldn't have messed around with the downloads
So, maybe I gotten on Ghost's "Ban List"