My first suggestion is your column bars are set to close to each other. |Description| <== the vertical line indicates the column bar you should take your mouse and place it on top of the vertical line, your mouse point should change from an arrow to <--> you should drag it to the right to expand the description field so that you can see the descriptions.
Another suggestion are your running limewire in full-screen or are you running it in a minimized window.
In the upper-right-hand corner of your screen you should have three boxes (a -line (_) a-box [] and a-X)
Click the box.
If you are running windows and have a problem understanding the Interface on limewire I highly recommend that you download the following title:
09/24/02 07:42p 18,220,665 CBT - Understanding LimeWire Configuration Full Multimedia.exe
It's a screencam movie explaining various aspects of limewire.
hope this helps
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