Well, Black Sheep I know what I saw. What transpired happened in this sequence and only minutes apart.

1) I downloaded the new program, and it told me that I did not have the Java plugin installed (I did, because the old version of Limewire would not run with out it and I installed it while I installed 2.5.5 version) The old version ran just fine.

2) After installing (minutes after installing) I went to "add/remove programs" to check if I still had an old version of Limewire listed on my system. I did, and I uninstalled the old version.

3) After assuming everything was done to my satisfaction I started surfing the web (like 10 minutes from installation to this point) and the first page I went to was my own webpage since I have updated news that I wanted to read and BOOM the IE browser reported that I had to download VM because I was not java enabled.

I had been on the internet literally 5 hours yesterday with no problems and in a matter of 10 minutes from installing Limewire to the problems leaves no other way that this could have happened. No other program was installed in that 24 hour time period, and no changes in configuration. I have been using computers sine 1985 and I have a degree in computer science. I am not some fruit cake that assumptions without proof.

I know what happened and the actions that were taken.