Which is more likely the case. You either find trackers where a bunch of people have done the same as you (and you've already gotten the peers from other sources anyway) or you find trackers that has no one else but you on them. Either way, it's a waste of resources.
The interaction between uTorrent and the webui is designed specifically to operate together WITH THE CURRENT VERSION. Old versions of either are unsupported due to backend changes.
Whatever's going on, it's probably something on your system or in your own settings/rss feeds causing what you're seeing. It's not something directly caused by uT.
A lot of the problem stems from user stupidity regarding tracker lists. They are of the delusion that adding a bunch of trackers will help their speeds. Most of the lists that are out there add a multitude of trackers that: 1> Are down 2> Have been closed for over a year 3> Are duplicates/aliases of other trackers in the list 4> Communicate properly with other trackers in the list in such a way that they're actually one tracker (but are separated in the list like they aren't) 5> Have never been trackers 6> Don't track all torrents Those lists are the root of the problem.