Didn't help: I went to the web site you give me, downloaded and installed the patch and rebooted. Still got the same message. I had already followed the instructions on configuring my Firewall to allow LimeWire access to the Internet, but I went through that again. I went to the exceptions list, delete Gnutella and LimeWire, then reconfigured them again. That didn't help either. Still got the same message. Guess I'll just have to wait until they get the bugs worked out or see if I can find someone who still has the 4.8.1 version and get a copy of it to install. If you can think of anything else that might work, I'll be happy to try it. Thank You.