Thanks for the tips. I tried to run my norton corporate and the scan engine wouldn't run so I uninstalled, downloaded AVG, installed, updated and ran a scan and nothing........ I've also got Adaware and ran it, found some crap, but nothing that's stopping Limewire from firing up. Also use spybot and spyware blaster which are both up to date. I'll try downloading the Java console again, but at least now after the system restore I did I'm not getting the Java error popping up when I try to fire up limewire. Now it just sits there like doesn't know what to do. I've never used firefox for a browser, but have heard many good things about it. Is there any real difference? Does Outlook and all other programs work just as well as with IE? I would switch if all things run just as well. Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Max