Why is there now talk about people patching their operating systems? I thought this had been established to be a Limewire problem, not an OS problem, seeing as how it doesn't affect anything else -- web browsing for example works fine even while Limewire is spazzing out dropping connections, refusing to reconnect, or whatever.

Also, I definitely have the problem, and I have a fully up to date XP home system -- all official patches and bugfixes applied as of this morning in fact. So I don't see how it can be a patch I've failed to install given that I haven't failed to install any patches at all.