i'm apparently using Java 6 and i've had my limewire up and running for a few days now witout problem, though i find it uses a lot of ram, which i'm not too concerned about since i have more then enough.

how much ram do other people have it running at just out of curiosity?

for those having trouble still, type in "firewall" in your search menu, i don't know if everyone has it or not but there's 2 things that will come up, one is Firewall with advanced security, go into it.

if you go to Inbound Rules, you can scroll down to where limewire is on the list, check what setting it is at. you want to go to properties and click on "Enable" and also select "alow connections"

this is what got mine working, i don't know if it will help anyone else, but when you tell windows firewall to turn off, it definatly doesn't turn off at all. the only way to do that is to go into windows firewall with advanced settings and see what programs it's still blocking or not.