Thanks for responding! I am using OX 10.2.8. What I mean by slow is that my entire computer slows down. Other applications run extremely slow. The downloads themselves don't seem to be affected at all. Just my system as a whole. I have tried only having Limewire and one small app running... it is still unbearably slow. I have pleanty of memory.. over 20 gigs on my hard drive and 768K of ram. My computer is a new IMAC G4. It was not like this about a month ago. It ran limewire just fine with up to five other apps running at the same time. I have all new updates as I am on a Cable modem and my computer pretty much takes care of itself as all Macs do. Is this enough info???? I tried looking on the Mac site and couldn't really find any useful info.

Dave