OK all, i solved the last prob i had w/star office vs. limewire by re-formatting & reinstalling SuSE. insodoing i found out i had a bad stick of ram (SuSE's memtest86 is intriguing). worked around the bad ram by simply removing it during (re)install and subsequently stickin 'er back in. all memory seems to work fine now. i'm trying out the new beta 7 version of limewire that supposedly has some kind of chat capability but i ain't found it yet!?! anyone else tried beta 7 yet? chat working?