sparks... without being inconsiderate of your woes, could you tell me where that help page was..."i put gnutella under a safe port like the help pages say and its still not loading"
(I want to learn how to better manually configure my firewall for LW)

Also...I'm no expert on limewire, and this may be a stupid question, but you didn't have limewire minimized to the system tray when you installed Norton did you? Or in startup?
Norton products can be very fickle when installing them, it may have caused the conflict and just a LW uninstall and reinstall may not have fixed it. Does Norton seem to work right?

I may be overstepping my bounds here, but I know a little about Symantec products and their answer to everything is to uninstall and reinstall to increasing degrees, its insane!

If you try to uninstall and reinstall NAV, (I'd uninstall LW first) Norton always recommends doing a "clean boot install" (and stopping all nonessential processes)--they don't tell you that in thier little booklets. Look at...Before Installing Norton Products ---and---No programs loading at startup (clean boot install)

(I found a page before with all of that together, but I can't seem to find it now)

Of course you gotta make sure all the Norton startup services are running before uninstalling, see here.... Enable Services at Windows Startup (just the top of page). (Or just make sure everything in NAV is enabled.)

They also have "SymNRT.exe" which is supposed to remove all traces of Symantec products in the event of a failed uninstall or whatever.

And...turn off firewall when reinstalling.

BTW--it ain't no joke--you can buy SystemWorks and NAV bundled for ten bucks (after rebates) now and then.
Its 'cause Norton kinda bites!

(I realize I'm verbose, I apologize.)