About the periodic freezes:

I have them as well (OS 9.1, G4 400):

After opening LW, the first freeze is on the way. It stays about 1min or so - in this time the whole Mac is "sleeping" but the mouse. (But no chance to click anything).
These freezes comeback from time to time, sometimes very often.

In 1 of 5 times using LW it has to be finished with apple+alt+escape because it stopped the whole mac...

I have the latest LW-Version....

Keep on the good work - LW will become superb I suppose....

mikropu