Birdy you have been very kind.

I really appreciate all you have done but now I think suicide might be the only option after spending 3 hours trying ALL the suggestions recommended, one after the other. OK, that's a bad joke.

I thought I was out of the tunnel when I got to the point where a suggestion was to close LW and download Frostwire. Suddenly there was music in my life. But then, I realised to my horror that it was just that one tune and nothing more, no matter that I could download all the tunes in the world. At least I stopped it playing continuously. Then I deleted it.

I closed FW and have just attempted to reload LW. But I can't. It tells me an older version of LW is running (it's not, acc to Taskbar) so I had to abort.

Prior to this I disabled all the preferences, clicked to delete the various limewire files in hidden folders - and all the time my connection indicator stayed red. But then on Frostwire they turned blue!

So now I can't even download LW. As Woody Allan said, life is hell and then you die.

I'm beginning to think that watching paint dry must be more fun than doing all this. Failing that, its self deletion..