re harmless junk file--I'm on a mac, so the stuff that jumps out of zips hasn't affected me yet this millenium

The junk I'm talking about are .jpgs, mostly ads, or really bad porn with someones web site printed all over it. Too, there are the default pictures sets that seem to come with many computers and are shared by many people.

Good luck bolting together a patch: maybe there is even a bounty for it: check http://www.limewire.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bounties and maybe you can cash in