Limewire v. 4.12.6 problems

[gators23]

I had the old version, 4.12.4 and everything was working great. I update to the new one, v. 4.12.6, and now I'm in a world of errors and frozen Limewire. When I load Limewire, it takes 10 seconds after the Limewire logo comes on screen before it even starts initiating. When it does load, it locks up. I try to close it, and on the times I'm successful, the little box that says ending Limewire with the line going back and forth locks up. I can close completely out of Limewire and not get that darn box off there. V. 4.12.4 worked great. What happened with 4.12.6? I can't get it to download a thing. I literally went from never having a problem to having them all the time. Also, I have the Windows version.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing, that did nothing. I haven't tried that offline installer, would that make any difference?