I was very keen on trying out new programs ... especially free ones & came across some p2p apps. Not being many available for Mac, I had some doubts about the 1st ones I tried, stuck with one (Myster) for several months before trying LimeWire which absolutely killed the other program & it's more limited network. But I had Java issues with both programs at that time.

I was using LW version 2 for 2 & 2/3 years on MacOS 8.5 before leapfrogging to LW 4.0.4 on OSX (another computer) because I found my copy of LW2 OSX didn't seem to work on Cheetah (or was it Jaguar when I finally tried it in OSX. I think I had problems finding my original backup of LW2 Classic which is why I went for OSX instead.)