Thanks ZAB for your pointer to the work-around. I can bring up Limewire and connect and do the usual upload and download. However, I must log on in the superuser terminal and launch by the following command. Notice the error messages before the new logon (that was a crash for unknown reasons and I did a restart) and the new logon that I did.

Clipped from Terminal:

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Something went wrong with LimeWire.
Maybe you're using the wrong version of Java?
(LimeWire is tested against and works best with with Sun's JRE, Java 1.4+)
The version of Java in your PATH is:
java version "1.4.2"
jdkgcj 0.3.1 (http://www.arklinux.org/projects/jdkgcj)
gcj (GCC) 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.fc3)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


[root@localhost dave]# limewire
Starting LimeWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. LimeWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com
Java exec found in /usr/java/jre1.5.0_03/bin/
Suitable java version found [/usr/java/jre1.5.0_03/bin/java = 1.5.0_03]
Configuring environment...
Loading LimeWire:

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I am thinking that Limewire is not finding Java in the expected place and then searching and finally finding it?

Also, no icon, of course, and when I start from the desktop with a command, I get a new Limewire. I assume from that Limewire is doing one start as root and another as user dave. I am dave and almost never use root and only usually su via the su terminal.

Thanks again .... I am getting very close to ordering the Pro version.

Cheers,

Dave