OK, the LimeWire Playlist (somewhere at the bottom, a light blue icon with a clef on it) is LimeWire's "old iTunes support". It is based on AppleScript (thus Mac only) and it simply copies complete downloads to iTunes.

Lotr's LW Tunes (looks like a stack of icons, dark blue and a clef on it) is the new iTunes support. If I interpret your messages correctly then you have never seen iTunes Music Sharing in action? Please take a look at this page (especially the movie).

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/...ent102094.html

DAAP is just a different name for what Apple calls iTunes Music Sharing. The files you're seeing in the playlist are the files you share with LimeWire. The playlists are only visible and accessible by computers on your LAN or WLAN and only via iTunes. Whenever you double click a song it is streamed from LimeWire to iTunes.

So what is DAAP? It is a server with a database, a transaction manager and a streaming component.

You can have both functions enabled but it's somewhat redundant.

Pro "old iTunes support"
- copies files to iTunes and you can burn them onto CD

Con "old iTunes support"
- duplicates wherever you look
- Mac only

Pro DAAP
- the music stays where it is and is simultanieously accessible by multible computers (no need to copy the music across the LAN)
- works with any computer (Mac, WIndows, Linux whetever). The only exception is that the music can only be accessed by Mac/Win since iTunes is only available for these systems.

Con DAAP
- doesn't copy the music to iTunes. I.e. you can't burn it directly.