The problems is that when I load up LimeWire my internet connection is killed before LW properly opens, and cant load a net page or reconnect properly until i restart.

I have a dial-up connection, which I am lucky to have all considering where I live in rural Australia. And I am running Windows 98 SE no firewalls or anything like that. I've run virus scans and spyware scans of all sorts but nothing is detected.

I have been successful 1/10 in connecting to LimeWire and when does it searches and downloads fine which shows it is possible to connect however if I leave it for 2 hours unattented LW dispalys a message saying I have lost my connection. which is another LW issue I have.

I have tryed the suggestion of deleting the .limewire preferences folder with no luck. And have searched around the forums only to find topics similar to this problem started only to find them cut short or incomplete.

I am fairly new at this so if anyone has any thing about either of this problems any help would be much appreciated.