interesting, I'll try that. I usually set it to 6 ultrapeer connections because search results seem much better when I do. However I'm pretty sure I've had the crash when I did not bump up the connections.

I just had the crash again and checked out a couple things (Limewire was in the background and I saw that it had crashed because it wouldn't come to the foreground when I clicked on it's window)

-- the out.txt and err.txt files were empty, so Limewire didn't log anything
-- once again I was unable to do a ps from a shell
-- tried shutting down, but os x froze as soon as it sent the quit event to Limewire

from now on I'm going to grab the pid after I launch it so next time I can try kill -1 when it's frozen in the background