Thanks Lord of the Rings,

I had already checked for the program loading twice in the processes list. There is only one limwire.exe.

I think i have Java up to date , i have updates 3 and 6 installed as i know that lime wire wanted updates when i installed it.

It may be that everyones limewire does what mine is doing anyway, that is the first screen flashes and then redraws itself and then loads the program, after that the main page ( that has "Getting Started" on it loads half of itself then flashes with the full page loaded.

Do others notice this?

Steve