Hey Birdy,

I thank you for your help. You say "Did you make sure that LW was properly closed when you deleted the preferences folder & also when you replaced the gnutella.net file?"

What and where is the gnutella.net file? I have not seen any reference to this anywhere else.

I am pretty sure I am going to give up on Limewire. The internet and music should be a FUN place to be...

Limewire is nothing but frustration and anger.

Macaffee keeps autmatically updating my firewall with new downloads... so that is not going to change.

I tried removing the old java and installing the Java 1.5 - as I was told to do.... what happened? Limewire would not open with 1.5 ERROR and said it needed 5.0 or higher to even open.

I did all the steps, jumped through the hoops. Unistalled, reinstalled and what happened.... NOTHING> >>>>>>> I still have one bar and cannot sign on to limewire.

Does limewire have a phone number for me to talk to a live human? Obviously I am not able to get back online. LOL

Does anyone have a completely different site for me to look at?

I surrender. I think it is best I just give up.

Limewire.... after working on this for more then 10 hours I am just more angry.