No, LimeWire is not down for the count. I am using it right now, and everything works. It's just that you are having some type of software conflict on your machine. Hopefully, the re-released 1.5 will fix the problems you are having. But if you describe your problems in a little more detail, we might be able to help you out. Could you be a little more specific about the problem and let us know what operating system, hardware, etc you have? Then, we'll see what we can do.