I have rum Ad-Aware and cleaned my system. The old Limewire worked just fine and so did 4.2.6 the night I downloaded it (which was about a week ago). When I went to run it today is when I noticed the problems. My internet connection is still quick. I'm pretty good with computer but by NO means fluent in the terms. So can you (or anyone) tell me what else it could be? As I said, I've installed the latest Java, deleted the .limewire file and ran Ad-Aware and Spybot. Thanks so much...Jessica