Yes, I do have more than 10% free space on my HD, should be something around 30% on my system drive. The drive with my download folder got about 50gig left...

I don't know how to access Virtual Memory anyway, how to turn it on and off. Under OS9 i knew how, but with OSX i have no clue.

Is it advisable to have it on or off?

But this behaviour of LW occupying all memory is no good. I need to know how I can get rid of this!

Funny you would mention Java. Until a week ago or so LW would refuse to start up. This came very unexpected, from one day to the other LW was crashing upon startup. It was definitely a Java problem. Now, a couple days later, I haven't done anything, LW decides to work again. So I say great my Mac fixed itself. Aren't Macs great? Still kinda weird, no idea what's going on.

Any more ideas are welcome

Cheers,

Bman