/users/(your home dir)/library/preferences/.limewire/limewire.props
this ^ is the location of the dir, I downloaded a copy of 2.7.3 my first copy of limewire ever and installed it. I kept having the lost preferences so I read all I could on the fourm and found a chap that tried to import he's old settings (from an earlier version) cause he was having the same problem so I started poking around where he said the preference stuff was. I started looking for the limewire.props file that was supposed to hold the prefs and found a dir by that name, sooo I deleted it, (i figured whats the worst thing that could happen, I'd have to reinstall? lol) and it solved the problem. thats pretty much how it happened, then I posted on the forum so others could benefit from my old school dos-style recklessness, forget file permissions delete now ask questions later lol.

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