uTorrent behaving weird

I'm using utorrent and something weird keeps happening.. in queueing I set 7 maximum active ul/dl and 5 maximum active dl but after every few hours almost all the torrents in queue seem to start downloading, and this makes it hard for the torrents at the top to dl properly as everything slows to a crawl.

Bug?

I just put a new cert into openvpn config yesterday and noticed that;

1. the icon at the bottom of utorrent is now permanently red, mousing above it shows "Not connectable. A firewall/router is limiting your network traffic. You need to open up a port so others can connect to you."

2. And some torrents that are showing lots of UL/DL in the online tracker sites are displaying 0 seeds/0 peers in utorrent. This specific torrent's tracker status is showing Proxy Error: Connection Refused

I didn't change anything in firewall or utorrent aside from putting a new cert in openvpn.. what could be causing this?