I'm runing Mac OS X 10.3.8.
My problems began when I wanted to update LW.
I made the mistake of dumping the old LW app including my copy of the installing software.
I downloaded the new version and installed.
All I got was a bouncing and crashing LW.
Apparently what I was doing was loading an UPDATE. It even said as much on the installer button.
Without an application to update, LW would just crash.
The LW website only offered the update, same with downloads.com.
Very frustrating!

Following what I found on these boards,
the advice that worked was installing an older version of LW.
I found it at this URL:
http://www9.limewire.com:82/download/backup/
I got:
LimeWireOSX.dmg 30-Jul-2004 12:12 4.7M
It wouldn't let me install beacuse it detected LW already installed. (I got (null) warnings.)
I trashed everything LW on my hard drive after doing a Command-F search.
I did the install of the above download.
IT'S WORKING GREAT!!
THANKS EVERYBODY!!!