Thanks for the help...

I'm not really sure if the problem was there before installing limewire because I installed it on the first day I had the computer, along with service pack 2. I did uninstall service pack 2 last night and still had the problem, if it was a sp2 problem would doing that fix it, or would I have to totally reinstall windows?

I did try downloading Shareaza to see if it was limewire, and it did the exact same thing, so it seems to be a file sharing program thing in general. Uninstalling limewire might fix it because 99.0% of the time I have the problem it's when I turn on limewire.

I have the latest java version I think...the one limewire reccomends you download...umm v 1.3.1 it says.

Does any of that shed some light on the situation?