Ok, I've been seeing lots of comments like LimeWire running slow on 10.2.4 no matter how beefy the machine. I have that problem - but magnified to the Nth degree.

I recently updated to LimeWire 2.9.7 and have the OS X 10.2.4 update. On a B&W G3 with 512MB RAM (an no other apps running except Finder), launching LimeWire pegs the CPU at 100% utilization for the entire time LimeWire is running. In this state, its effectively unusable since every click takes over 10 minutes.

I've read through the FAQ's and attempted to delete the /Applications/LimeWire and related files and re-install, but I still have the problem. Has anyone else encountered this? FYI, I was also encountering this with the older version of LimeWire, so I did the update.
I recall a recent Java update for OS X (1.4.1?). Could that be causing the problem??

Thanks for any hints

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