Thanks for all your input to these forums Lord of the Rings. LW stopped working for me many months ago but it's taken this long to get round to seriously doing something about it. I've been following these forums for a week or so now and tried everything suggested, including: downgrading to both LW 4.16 and then LW 4.18, as well as LW 5.1.4 and the Beta version, repairing permissions, making sure java 1.6 is installed, etc, etc, ... Nothing works.

Currently I have LW 5.2.3 installed. The boot-up window shows for a split second and then the following bug report is produced - from which you can also see my operating system etc. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

LimeWire version 5.2.3
Java version 1.6.0_13 from Apple Inc.
Mac OS X v. 10.5.7 on x86_64
Free/total memory: 57567656/64421888

FATAL ERROR!

java.lang.VerifyError: (class: org/apache/log4j/LogManager, method: <clinit> signature: ()V) Incompatible argument to function
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.util.LogUtils.isLog4JAvaila ble(LogUtils.java:17)
at org.limewire.ui.swing.Initializer.<init>(Initializ er.java:105)
at org.limewire.ui.swing.GuiLoader.load(GuiLoader.jav a:40)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Native MethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.limewire.ui.swing.Main.main(Main.java:43)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Native MethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java: 115)
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner. java:50)
at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.launch(Java ApplicationLauncher.java:52)


-- listing session information --
Current thread: main
Active Threads: 5
Peak Number of Thread: 9
System Load Avg: 0.34716796875
Objects Pending GC: 0
Free Space In Settings: 68116029440
Free Space In Incomplete: 0
Free Space In Downloads: 0
Heap Memory Usage: init = 67108864(65536K) used = 6854232(6693K) committed = 64421888(62912K) max = 264241152(258048K)
Non-Heap Memory Usage: init = 24317952(23748K) used = 11781272(11505K) committed = 24317952(23748K) max = 138412032(135168K)

-- listing threads --
AWT-AppKit: 1
AWT-Shutdown: 1
AWT-EventQueue-0: 1
Image Fetcher 0: 1
main: 1


-- listing properties --
LAST_EXPIRE_TIME=1246314961237