each time i downlaodo a song it comes in as a document and therefore i cannot hear it right away from the bottom part of the screen once its completed...any help ideas?

I am also having a problem with some of my downloads. Most of the time the come in as .mp3 files but sometimes they are LimeWire Document files and they won't play.

I've had this problem too. I've usually found that if I change the file name of the file, then I can play it. A lot of mp3 files have really long file names that include the artist and name of song. IIRC, Unix is the only OS that allows for infinately long files names.

So, I change the file name to something that my OS will recognize, and the files play just fine.