actually heres a real simple way of explaining my problem... forget about my system's setup for a second...

if i was to delete my desktop folder.. limewire would not install.. so there.. anybody wanna give me a reason for this?

now i know u cannot delete the desktop folder.. but if u changed the shell folder path in the registry to a location that does not exist.. it would look to the system as if its been deleted

the desktop should have nothing to do with limewire... except maybe where it sticks its shortcut when its done installing.. (that is if u even told it to put one there) but that isnt the problem here..