Trouble finding files

[Anthropo]

Here's a fun chestnut. The files I download off LimeWire are available to be played as long as I'm in my LimeWire library. But I can't find them outside it.

I know the folder they're supposed to be downloading to, and there's no files in there, none at all. I've used Vista's search function to look for my files, and it claims they're not there.

And yet LimeWire obviously thinks they are and is capable of playing them. This is only really a problem in the case of burning files to a CD, moving them, or actually most of the things I'd like to with 'em.

Has anyone else had this problem? I've had LimeWire on XP and Windows 2000 without issues, but Vista . . . well, I guess it's glitchy. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling LimeWire (hardly ideal, since I lose all my files) and there's no change.

I bow to the wisdom of the LimeWire forum. Help me, o ye great ones.