I feel for you man ... windows me is the problem ... sort for windows mestake
... at any rate have you tried downloading the lastest java client?
get it here
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html
After you d/l it be sure to uninstall the 1.3 client and restart limewire ... it will say that it cant find its client ... direct it to the 1.4 client and you are set.
If that doesn't work ... get an xp or 2k upgrade to me .... that always helps... just kidding.