I seem to be having a very similar problem, which has not been solved by updating the JRE and re-installing Limewire. Interestingly enough the error message says JAVA version 1.3.1_05 even though I have updated to v 1.4.1_01 :
STARTUP ERROR
LimeWire version 2.7.11
Java version 1.3.1_05 from Sun Microsystems Inc.
Windows 98 v. 4.10 on x86
Free/total memory: 12262760/19988480
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.MessageService.displayE rror(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.MessageService.showInte rnalError(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator._showIntern alError(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.GUIMediator.showInterna lError(Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Initializer.initialize( Unknown Source)
at com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main.main(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at RunLime.main(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(Unknown Source)
-- listing properties --
LANGUAGE=en
FILES IN CURRENT DIRECTORY:
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\limewire.props
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447764000
SIZE: 47
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\UninstallerData
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447772000
SIZE: 0
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\jre
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447780000
SIZE: 0
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\lax.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447794000
SIZE: 39074
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\LimeWire.exe
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447794000
SIZE: 319488
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\LimeWire.lax
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447794000
SIZE: 3667
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\LimeWire.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 1050252
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\RunLime.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 4983
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\collections.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 259265
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\jl011.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 132309
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\xerces.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 1646108
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\MessagesBundles.jar
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 349715
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\MessagesBundle.properties
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 74716
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\BrowserPage.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447796000
SIZE: 20480
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\jawt.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447798000
SIZE: 20554
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\LimeWire20.dll
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447798000
SIZE: 32768
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\Display.props
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447856000
SIZE: 131
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\donotremove.htm
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447798000
SIZE: 0
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\limeshop.html
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447798000
SIZE: 42320
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\LimeWire.ico
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447798000
SIZE: 2238
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\LimeWire_InstallLog.log
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447804000
SIZE: 8200
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\err.txt
LAST MODIFIED: 1038458378000
SIZE: 0
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\out.txt
LAST MODIFIED: 1038458378000
SIZE: 0
C:\PROGRAM FILES\LIMEWIRE\lib
LAST MODIFIED: 1038447820000
SIZE: 0  |