thanks for clarifying that. i've now got a huge crash report for limewire. it's too long to show entirely in a screen grab, but the first 20-30 lines are below (for some reason, this forum wouldn't allow me to attach the screen grab b/c it was too large). does this script offer any insight?

thanks for all your help.

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===== Sun Jul 31 2005 ===== 10:34:32 US/Pacific =====
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Host Name: Tom-Bordens-Computer.local
Date/Time: 2005-07-31 10:34:43 -0700
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: LimeWire
Path: /Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/LimeWire
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 650
Thread: 1

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa7531d54

Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90007878 mach_msg_trap + 0x8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900073f8 mach_msg + 0x38
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c16e0 __CFRunLoopRun + 0x350
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c5e6c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 0x148
4 ...ple.JavaApplicationLauncher 0x850318b4 _Z11startupJavaiiPPKcPK14__CFDictionary14BuilderVe rsionS0_S1_ + 0x128
5 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x000025e8 0x1000 + 0x15e8
6 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x00001fc8 0x1000 + 0xfc8
7 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x00001df8 0x1000 + 0xdf8

Thread 1 Crashed:
0 libjvm.dylib 0x936b33f8 JVM_Timeout + 0x1018
1 libjvm.dylib 0x936bab04 JVM_DoPrivileged + 0x2ea4
2 libjvm.dylib 0x936c7220 JVM_MonitorNotifyAll + 0xf50
3 libjvm.dylib 0x93674d14 JVM_GetClassAccessFlags + 0xab4
4 libjvm.dylib 0x93677544 JVM_MonitorWait + 0x1da4
5 libjvm.dylib 0x936772bc JVM_MonitorWait + 0x1b1c
6 libjvm.dylib 0x9373345c JVM_GetClassDeclaredFields + 0x161c
7 libjvm.dylib 0x93762d70 JVM_GetInterfaceVersion + 0x15330
8 libjvm.dylib 0x9375daa8 JVM_GetInterfaceVersion + 0x10068
9 libjvm.dylib 0x9375d5dc JVM_GetInterfaceVersion + 0xfb9c