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So I'm still lost. I don't know if I'm behind a firewall or if it wasn't d/l correctly, all I know is I'm not seeing a limewire 'icon' or the stars that are to the left of the songs, like I did on my old computer. Would it make a difference if the old one was windows xp and the new one is vista??