the program worked fine the first couple of days ,and now the screen is all the serch filter screen with no down loading / info half of the page please advise

Which version of LW do you have? Which operating system version? Which version of Java? If you are using the most recent LW 4.4 wthen go to LW's menu >Help>About LW... & tell us which version it says & which version of Java.

It might be an idea to make a note of your settings & then close LW. Then delete your LW Prefs folder called .limewire (whilst LW is closed!) & found here:
Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP: C:/Documents And Settings/your_username/.limewire
OR Windows 98 / ME: Your .limewire folder is in "C:\My Documents" (BUT make a note of all your LW settings 1st, b/c after you delete the LW prefs folder you'll need to reset them.)

You can also try these other things one by one until one of them works:
1. Fixes for Limewire

2. Update to the most recent LW version 4.4.1: http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml
(LW 4.2.6 has some bugs which have since been fixed up.)