I had a problem with my limewire it kept saying Starting Connection.
i tried re-installin it and deleting the .limewire folder but nothing worked.

it started to stop working when i made an new user and deleted the oldone.
usually wen u deleted the old account all da programs installed stay working but some go corrupt and u hav to re-install them.

as you know limewire needs Java. just the other day i decided to download the newest version of Java. wen it was installed limewire worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so if ur connection always says: "Starting Connection" then download and install the newest version of Java.

http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp