But worse I think... Im Having the " Limewire was unable to initialize and start. A firewall might be blocking Limewires access to internet or loopback ((what the heck is a loopback?)) connections on the local machine, please allow limewire to access the net and restart limewire" message everytime i try to start it.

Heres MY story.

Just upgraded to highspeed cable thru my cable tv service. Internet explorer and Aim work great! mozilla firefox, limewire, various online games, and other p2p downloading programs i got off of the net, cant find the connection. Now why is that. 2 programs work on the cable but nothing else. my spyware blocking programs cant even find the connection for updates for themselves.

And i reeeally wanna use lime.

Lime and other p2p sharing programs worked fine on dial up.

after the upgrade, boom, nothing.

People told me check my windows xp firewall and other security things.
Sounds weird but, Im pretty sure i dont have a firewall. Should be in control panel right? nope...

My norton is not running at all cause it expired, my spyware protection progs are shut off, my network connection is running perfectly on ie and aim, but nothing else... No limewire! Eh well This should do for now. Any help would be appreciated, to me or the guy above me.

If nothing helps me here im gonna have to call ...gulp... microsoft tech support... haha