ok i've found a way round this problem..its long winded so bear with me..download the english only version from the limewire site which will bounce you to download.com ..i tried this and it refused to download so i clicked on the " click here if your download doesn't start " button which gave me an alternative download site..left clicking this gave me a screen of code rubbish but right clicking and choosing the "save document as " option gave me a .dmg version of limewire 3.5.8 which installed and runs fine..well it seems to so far anyway...be warned that it still seems to take a long time to load the core components bit but so long as you dont get the ball of death thing [ i'm using 10.1.5] then you should be ok