Installed LW for wrong version of MAC OS X

Java is correct but running on a different drive Would that be the problem?

LW usually prefers to be installed in the applications folder. Whilst some of the older versions would run on a different drive, creating its own app folder. Perhaps reinstalling it into the applications folder to see if that makes any difference.

unfortunately my itunes folder is so big i don't have enough space.... guess it's time to get more memory

hmm LW program does not take up that much space. On my old computer at one point moved my iTunes library to a different drive, then an external drive. On my new computer it has it's own special partition with 720 GB capacity so no quick chance of running out of space.

OSX needs space for virtual memory. All OSX programs use VM, so I try to avail all possible space on my system drive. That includes installing whatever programs I can on other drives & do not use the system drive/personal account folder for saving files to. This also keeps the system disk drive reading/writing only for the system. But that's just my approach. Used that approach for quite a few years now.

Thank you Lord!!!
Moved some folders around and got it to work. Thanks for your help!!!
Looks like i should find a sale on external drives.
I am going to play now I'll be back later to set up my profile.
Thanks again,
Donna

Great to hear.
External drives are not expensive nowadays. Several days ago I bought a 1 TB external drive for same price I bought my 250 GB & 300 GB drives a few years ago. They do great when connected via Firewire 800. FW 400 is fine, just half the speed. USB is slower than that.

I had this problem too (installed wrong version for update purposes, then unable to reinstall, even after dragging the downloads and Limewire from Applications to trash, and emptying the receipts folder).

But then I used finder to search 'limewire' and some other folders came up in library (preferences and one other thing - theme and props, too) and after deleting them, my download and install worked. I don't know if this helps anyone, but in case anyone comes across it. I know this thread REALLY helped me to troubleshoot, so.

Thanks!