I dont know what those programs are that you are using, but mine is blinking also. I just downloaded last night, have windows XP, my firewall and virus software (has a P2P shield) are both configured to allow the limewire/gnutella/bearshare/shareazza, I have installed the updated version of Java but yet limewire is still blinking and it can get on your nerves when your trying to read the search results.

Is there something else that I need to make an adjustment to or something else that I need to download to STOP that dang blinking?