Your music should still be there, deleting the preference folder has never caused music to be deleted before...

Try these suggestions and see if they help...

Try uninstalling all versions of Java from the add/remove programs and then use Crap Cleaner to clean the registry.

Try updating to the latest version of Java here Java SE Downloads

If the latest update gives you any problems, try this older version, which has worked well for lots of people: Archive: Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 11
Whichever Java version you use, download the JRE offline installer & remove any other Java versions (via Add/Remove Programs) before installing another one.


If none of the above fix your problem you will need to start fresh using the offline installers for both Limewire and Java...

Limewire offline installer: http://www9.limewire.com/download/LimeWireWin-full.exe

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UGH!

Absolutely nothing is working, I had to start fresh with downloading Java and limewire. Java loaded fine, but now I am having issues loading limewire. It gets almost completely through the downloading process and then a box pops up that reads "installation is corrupted. Please download and install Limewire again"...I have tried "again" multiple times and keep getting the same message. I really like being able to download all of the great music and even though I really don't want to, at this point, I'm so frustrated, I'm almost ready to throw in the towel and say "forget it".

Try Phex and see if that works for you....

http://www.phex.org/wiki/index.php/Get_Phex

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Thank you for your help, and Phex downloaded fine, but I'm really not sure I like the set up. When I did an audio search for an artist, I couldn't tell in the list what any of the songs were like you can on limewire...you can call me picky if you'd like, but seeing how I am not all that tech savvy, I would prefer to know which song/artist I am trying to download.

Do you have any other ideas. Is there any way at all that I can get back to Limewire??? It gets all the way to the point (when I'm downloading limewire) where it says "unpacking files", then I get the "installation is corrupted" message.

Hmmm...I think you need to start fresh....Maybe when you uninstalled LW a few files where left behind somewhere...

The correct way to uninstall is Start > All programs > Limewire/Uninstaller

Use your computer's search to look for all files & folders with limewire in the name. If you can't delete them, reboot into safe mode & then try. If they still won't delete, try one of the tools here...
Incomplete Download File won't delete at all.

Once you have it uninstalled use this link to reinstall...

http://www9.limewire.com/download/LimeWireWin-full.exe

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That did the trick...yea!! Thank you so much for your help and all of your patience dealing with a "newbie"!

That's great....I'm glad it's all up and running again...

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