Thanks, LOTR. I'm running JAVA 1.3.1_04. What's curious is that the language issue came up at the same time as the connection issue: when I installed the SP2. In other words, Limewire was in English with this version of JAVA for six months with no problem. The other funny thing is when I tried to reinstall LW today it was half in English and half in the Norse (?) language, and remained so when I chose English as the language option and restarted. And, of course, my download was supposedly the "American/Canadian" version of LW.