Thanks for the quickie response, however I've already tried the 4.18 version and it was the one that wouldn't even load and I've already reconfigured my firewall parameters as instructed on the forum you mentioned. I'm lost for further options. This kitty is desperate for some tunes.

For some reason I cannot run 4.18 or 5 on my system either so I use LW 4.16 which is a little buggy once in a while but otherwise works well. Looks like a similar scenario.
I use LW 5 on a different OSX installation.

hi cyberkitten
Did you get the situation solved? http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...downloads.html & use this connection cache file called gnutella.net to place into your LW preferences folder whilst the program is closed to help you get connected; http://www.gnutellaforums.com/343558-post10.html

LW preferences folder is found at: OSX -> Users -> Library -> Preferences -> Limewire