hello. i have a similar problem with my limewire. that's the message which appears on startup:

STARTUP ERROR
Java version 1.2.2 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Linux v. 2.2.16 on i386
Free/total memory: 11202784/20000760

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/sound/sampled/Line
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.mp3.MediaPlayerComponen t.<init>(MediaPlayerComponent.java:56)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.StatusLine.<init>(Statu sLine.java:101)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.MainFrame.<init>(MainFr ame.java:127)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.<init>(GUIM ediator.java:110)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.instance(GU IMediator.java:219)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Initializer.initialize( Initializer.java:97)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Main.java:17)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at RunLime.main(RunLime.java:77)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(Unknown Source)

hope someone can help me ,too.

greetz rene