Well it sounds like Mactella is doing to you what Limewire is doing to me. I have unistalled Limewire, reinstalled it, even redownloaded it, all to no avail. Either the program freezes my computer right from the start, or immediately after I start a search. In fact, I can't even force it to close and end up having to shut the entire computer down. It's really frustrating. I don't understand, because just last week I was able to run the program 75% of the time. The rest of the time it was just like I described. Any other suggestions?