Thanks for the response.

I fiddled with just about everything and even downloaded an old copy of 4.07 from a link I found here in the forum and tried a fresh installation. Still no go. It was clear that it was phoning home to see if there was a new version but I could not get to connect to any peers.

So, on a lark, I dug down to a known-good back-up from a CD and used that to replace the prefs files in the ".limewire" folder in System Prefs, and to be on the safe side I also copied over the MRJ library files from known goods because some of the error messages were pointing in that direction.

Not sure which it was, but replacing both of those seems to have corrected the problem.

Neither the copy of Norton Utilities or Disk First Aid that I have turned up anything bad in the files so replacing Prefs and the MRJ Libs were my next choice, along with a fresh install. Since the install didn't fix it, the next step was that

So its working now. Still not sure which file was corrupted.

I wish I could get it to stop phoning home for a new version as that is a waste of time for the OS9 version that is no longer supported.

DMK
Sunclad