I placed a zip file with all the files necessary for v1.7 to run. on my web server. You can open the file from your browser and save it to your hard disk as a zip archive. The complete Sun JAVASOFT directory is included. This directory has JAVA versions for both Limewire 1.x and 2.02. You may already have these on your hard disk (Installing 2.02 does not write over the old version).
I placed the Limewire files in "Program Files/Limewire/1.7/" This way they can coexist with 2.02PRO.
http://www.vsdev.com/fix/limewire v1.7.zip
Good luck!