Everytime i start limewire it seems to take 2 minutes to fully start up. (freezes 2-3 times while starting)

then when it starts up, i go to search a song and its already frozen, and it locks up to the point where i have to force shutdown on LW.

is there anything i can do to fix this? the previous versions worked FINE until a lot of this Java stuff was implemented into it
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Limewire is up to date, its the latest version out there
I have the latest Java as well
1.5gb ram | 1.6ghz processor | 128mb video
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Intel Graphics media accelerator driver for mobile