There is no initial membership! You're not getting confused with becoming a member of the forum are you? The forum & LW are 2 separate identities. The forum also caters for some other p2p apps & is just a forum for p2p help.

I hope you didn't pay for the free version of LW! See here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28751

The ONLY place to get LW is from here: http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

It's a good idea to update your Java before you install LW: Java 1.5 (take the JRE)