hey um im new and just bought an S2 License. how do i know im running ver. Q? it says hundreds of drivers online, but i only see a few when i search for servers. am i on version q or without the new patch?

On startup of LFS you see it in the lower section of the screen. Besides that, you don't even need Q to join servers. The servers you do see are all the S2 servers (many servers, few players, alteast if you play at the wrong time).

A4WD, it's something we have to live with for now over here in the states. Very few racers online in the evenings here. The good thing is, there are some really great people that ARE on at our time. Any time you see someone from CoRe, or (V) which is Mercury Racing, or some of the newer US teams as MB, LOTF, and some others I can't think of them all, they are all people I've been racing with for 9 months or so and a great bunch! Some other teams are [400] and is SCCC still around? Hmm, wonder if Chesnta ever bought a license, haven't seen him in a long time.