Before I installed the new version of Limewire, I could search and download files that had japanese/chinese/korean font fine.

When I installed the new Limewire, whenever I attempted to download anything with japanese/korean/chinese in the title, Limewire would say

"Limewire cannot open a necessary file because the file name contain characters which are not supported by your operating system. Limwire may behave in unexpected ways."

Then the file would be 100% complete, and status would be "Could Not Move to Library"

I have the asian fonts installed, although I've been seeing the white boxes ever since with the old limewire, it would still allow me to download it. Now, it just gives me that error.

Anyone have a clue how to fix this?

I've downlded files with asian names without any problem in the new version. The asian font displays correctly in both LW & once dwnlded. Sounds more like a system issue. Though it might be Java related. Get Java 1.5 (take the JRE) it has better international font support.