Here's as much as I can tell you - I downloaded Limewire yesterday including Java Runtime and installed both. During setup there was an option to choose an extra piece of software (basically an ad) and I said no, I also clicked no when it asked if I wanted to make Java the default for IE6 or Netscape - everything else I did by default.
When it asked me if I wanted to restart I said yes and as it started to boot down LimeWire started running. As it went through all the loads in its loading window the restart caught up with it, shut it down and then the computer restarted - that is the only thing that happened that seemed strange (why would LimeWire boot as the computer was restarting?)
I fired it up, did the online tutorial, went through options which I pretty much left as the defaults, then entered 'olympic theme' in the seach field because that's one of the things I'm looking for, and put audio in the 'type' box. The lime started turning, 'olympic theme' showed up in the search box below with an x on the left side and the number of results on the right side. It found about 50 and stopped but no info appeared in the box itself. Grouped was checked but unchecking this made no difference.
All the buttons below like download any or download all are greyed out. One thing I've noticed - the download box below has a bar of blue buttons that say "name/size/status/chat, etc". The search box does not have this bar in it even though from the tutorial I know its supposed to.
That's about the best I can tell you. I've heard great things about LimeWire and was just checking it out because I planned to get Pro immediately if it worked well because I'm always happy to support good work. On the other hand I need that theme for a project and if I can't get Limewire to work I'll have to find another program because I'm under deadline. Hope you all can figure it out. If you need any more info or want to contact me to get specs on my setup I'm happy to help. My email is
mooquat@hotmail.com.