No the basic version of LimeWire is free. You can download from here. http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

It sounds like you got scammed the first time. check out this link.
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28751

Check out ursula's post in that link. There is a lot of cool links in the signature line most of which is free!!!