Limewire closes w/ fullscreen game

Hi all

As the title suggests, my limewire is closing whenever i attempt to alt+tab to a full screen game. Upon alt+tabbing back to my desktop, there is clearly a limewire icon at the bottom right of the screen, although it disappears as soon as I hover over it, no error message whatsoever.

I've googled the problem to no avail - i've found 2 threads discussing the same issue, though the topic starters were directed elsewhere and there was no closure.

I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (5.1, Build 2600), Limewire 4.12.11 Pro, Java 1.6.0_33

thanks in advance

edit: added relevant info

please if you get an answer to this problem let me know because the exact same thing is happening to me.