Thanks for letting us know it worked. What did you do in the process to fix the problem?

Unfortunately the Java on OSX is not so good. Mac designs it themselves instead of letting SUN do it. You need plenty of ram, plenty of available HDD space to run LW on OSX. Also not to share more than 2,000 files & not keep too many incomplete files. You could always try one of Jum's nightly builds of LW http://www1.mager.org/LimeWire/ which sometimes work better on some people's systems than the official LW.