Addendum: it failed to find the other 6 files on requery, and it also failed to find more than about 800 additional MB to allocate on several further occasions, each announced with great fanfare with a huge, focus-stealing dialog box. (Exactly how big a chunk it requested each time is a mystery, but it has to have exceeded 800M for the system not to find it somewhere in the bowels of the 1600M virtual memory with only 700-odd in use.) I closed it down, and waited the interminable time it takes for the process to disappear from task manager (over 2 minutes this time; I clocked it, and sometimes it's over ten) before launching a new instance.

Predictable as cloudless skies in the weather forecast for Cairo: "Sorry, but Limewire was unable to resume your old downloads!" There's no excuse for the code to display that dialog even being in the source tree, let alone actually being executed. And for a list of only six files? How ****ing hard can it be to load six old downloads? Especially when I've seen older versions (3.3.5 comes to mind) able to load over 2000(!) without difficulty -- and that arguably *is* excessive.

This software sucks. Version 4 just plain doesn't work. It sort of goes through the motions of vaguely resembling something that's pretending to work while actually only being a cardboard cutout that does no work at all well -- a big, fat, lardy 100MB cardboard cutout that is. And it sure uses a lot of CPU doing nearly nothing except failing to present a UI, composing the latest out of memory error dialog of doom to present to me like a birthday gift from Satan (the clocks must all be wrong down there since it's not my birthday for some months yet, but since they can't ever see the ****ing sun or moon from there I can't really blame them for failing to keep an accurate calendar), and seeing how many concurrent threads it can spawn before Windows XP chokes (answer: over 700, since I've seen it grow to that many threads more than once both in some of the poorer 3.8.x versions and all the 4.0.x ones, before I killed the process so as not to find out how many it takes to crash XP and lose all my unsaved work in other applications, the loss of unsaved work in Limewire being by then a foregone conclusion)...

Maybe I can't blame Satan for not keeping an accurate calendar but I sure as hell can blame Limewire for not keeping my download list across sessions, despite professing to have done so since version 2.x. My official position is that I'm still waiting for this feature to actually be implemented.