Interesting--thanks for the replies. Yet this might be just the sort of situation osu_uma is talking about: letting the user (and whomever is trying to help) know that all is OK or not. Didn't the LW homepage once have such a link that checked the user's ability to function on gnutella? It would sure help eliminate some of the doubt and uncertainty.

@jum--thanks again. Having a version of 3 trusted by an OSX coder really helps me eliminate setup/platform problems. I had some notes on the differences between LW and LWj, but this thread is going in a different direction. If you don't mind, I'll just email them.