I assumed that when I came to this forum I would see a ton of posts regarding the unbelievably terrible performance of the latest version of LimeWire. Since this is not the case, I can't imagine what the problem is. Everything was working fine with the old version, and everything continues to work fine as long as LimeWire isn't running.

But as soon as I launch Limewire, my computer's performance slows to a crawl and soon becomes completely frozen. I can't even do a force quit or switch to any other apps. Even the spinning pinwheel does something I've never seen. It flickers.

I'm running OS X 10.2.3 on a 500mhz g4.