Freeze on startup

[Ed91]

Ok, I've been putting up with this one for a while, but I've finally got bored of no access to Limewire whenever I like. I'm using the new beta 4.13, though I was encountering this problem on the current release (I installed the beta hoping the issue may be fixed). It seems to be an intermittent issue, as sometimes Limewire runs, and others I can't open it for a few hours, then it's fine again.

When I start Limewire, it freezes on the flash screen while "Loading user interface", and I'm left with a flash screen that changes to an image of whatever was last on top of it, which was amusing at first, but the novelty soon wore off.
To remove it I have to go into task manager and shut down Limewire.exe, which seems to still be running, just failing to load the interface.

After it crashes once on startup, I'm guaranteed the same situation repeating many times over and a wait of a random amount of time before Limewire will fire up again.

Any ideas, anyone?

XP SP2 - Java 1.5

[Peerless]

how full is your OS drive/partition?

and when is the last time you defragmented your drive?

[Ed91]

My PC's in pretty good shape..

41GB used, 252GB free space, so I don't think that's much of an issue, and it's only 5% fragmented.

Rest of the system stats:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+
2048MB RAM
Radeon X1300

I'm too lazy to type it all out, take a peek if you want

link to pcpitstop.com detailed Info of my PC

[Grandpa]

Try going to add and remove programs and uninstall all versions of Java and LimeWire reboot then reinstall Java then LimeWire use the offline installers save them to your desktop then install them.