whenever i start up limewire it looks like its connecting and initializing but then all of a sudden the screen just goes grey. nothing comes up and i can't click on anything. But my computer doesn't freeze or anything.
(using win xp)

and by the way, on the task bar at the bottom of my screen it just says "enabling open information sharing"......Now all of a sudden everything looks ok, but i can't click anything in limewire. its as if the program itself is frozen but nothing else......Now when i click on the task bar again the screen turns grey

This happens for some reason, just give it a minute and Limewire should return to normal. It happens a lot to me and I just minimize it and do something else for a minute.