Yes those settings are stored in your LW preferences folder in your. To find them, check Deleting LW Preferences folder in OSX. It's in your user account.

Download history is stored within two files called Downloads.dat & .bak inside your incomplete folder. Without those files your incomplete files will mean nothing to LW, even if a file is 90% downloaded. Unless you have a lot of incomplete files, it 'might' be worth deleting those files. At least in versions of LW prior to 4.17 that's where they were found, I heard in the later versions they are no longer stored there. I am not sure.

I deleted my preferences folder and reset everything and that did the trick. The file is now gone. Thanks so much for all your help!!!

The main LW preferences folder or the downloads preferences?

The main Limewire preferences folder. I couldn't find the downloads one.


So, the file's gone but I'm having another problem now... Limewire is fully connected (all 4 green bars) but gives me no search results. The little lime at the top just keeps spinning...
I went here: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...h-results.html and did everything that said to and it didn't work. I also tried going to my Connections tab and removing the current connections and letting it find new ones.

About your first problem..
I had it as well but I solved it somehow this way:

tools > options > downloads > clear completed download (check the box). I put it on by mistake and the problem went away so I took it off and the problem just came back, so I put it on again and it's gone again. It can't be coincidence.