it's not working. i'm not sure what's wrong, but i noticed that when i look at the connections tab, where it shows what servers you're connecting to, there's nothing there. i can click on the area's where there'd be lines saying what server and what ip address, and it highlights the area like there's something there, but there's no text. and still no search bar. and, i'm getting no connections either. this is weird man. also, i'm an internet explorer user, and the day limewire messed up, was the same day that my text on internet explorer freaked out too. i keep it on normal size, and when it loaded up that day, the text was there, but it was like real blocky, and impossible to read. i set the text to a different size, and it works fine. i dunno. i'm gonna try to d/l any updates from microsoft, and then if that don't work, run scandisk and defrag my hd. if that still don't work, i guess i'm screwed. thanks for the suggestions though, but it looks like i may have a bigger problem with my pc itself.