biker,

I have an idea of what may be causing this. If you could please find where "LimeWire.exe" is installed (generally at C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire <version>), add a file called "launch.properties" (all lowercase, without the quotes), and in it, put:

-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons .logging.impl.NoOpLog
-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true
-Xmaxf0.25
-Xminf0.10
-Xms4m
-Xss64k
-jar
LimeWire.jar

exactly like that. Then try starting LimeWire again. This will disable directdraw, which _may_ fix the problem.

Let us know how it goes. (If you end up not being able to use LimeWire at all, just delete that launch.properties file.)