Near enough, off in that direction.

Hmm well I am surprised it didn't work. I notice LW lists Mac OSX 10.2.6 as the minimum for using the newer versions of LW. I can't think of what the answer might be. You could try a safe boot & repair permissions. SAFE Boot & Repair Permissions It's a bad time since most others have gone away on holidays or just taking time out to celebrate Xmas. So I can't invite anybody else here for a little while.

Just as an experiment, try one or more of Jum's nightly builds here http://www.mager.org/LimeWire/ (no installation necessary, just drag & drop the program from the dmg to where you want it.) Jum's build's are CVS builds ... betas if you like. Find the nightly builds link on that page!