Michael, welcome to Gnutella forums.

(A) as a first step to try to fix this issue, could apply the following maintenance tips (if not already done) and re-test LW in between each step

Close all the running applications (except the Finder)

(1) Could you try to repair permissions
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboot

(2) could also download Macjanitor
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_...acjanitor.html
and use it to run the maintenance scripts
The maintenance scripts are Unix scripts which are automatically ran on your
Mac between 02Am and 04 am..if your Mac is on at this moment.
I can advice you to run, through Macjanitor, the daily script each day, the week script each week, ..and so on

(B) despite the fact that LW 4.10 will correctly work on 10.4.x with the Java 1.4 (as my configuration for instance), some Tiger users have resolved a similar issue by updating their Java to 1.5 . You can tell the system whether to use java 1.4 or 1.5 See Apple article

Regards
Philippe