i did all that and now in my lime wire library instead of the traffic cone icon that should be there there is like a page with a video camera infront of it and the videos wont play ???????

Limewire for some strange reason won't use VLC as default program on Windows systems. You will have to open the incomplete file from the folder instead. Some use WinAmp as the default player btw. It's not as good as VLC, but still it's far better than WMP