I am also having the same problem, running on the same system(OS9 and DSL) that CommanderPuffball is having. Has anyone figured out a solution for this yet? I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that didn't seem to work. I have also tried installing the MRJ directly from apple and then downloading the other version of Limewire(4.5mb), but that didn't work either. Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I used to run 1.8 with no problems and I miss using Limewire.