Re: Norm's point see here: http://www.limewire.com/english/content/skins.shtml That will show you available skins.

1. Go to LW's menu View>Show/Hide & select Connections or any other.
2. Actually the search button does change shape with different skins.
3. ? Not sure what you mean.
4. I might be wrong but I thought LW 4.2 brought in the ability to change font for display.

I use mac which has better graphic design than the windows version. I haven't checked out the newer 4.2 but will shortly.