I have found out what is causing my .sit files to return to limewire but do not know what to do now. It is because they are downloading as limewire docs rather than sit files, what can i do to correct this?

In osX select a sit file you have downloaded. Go to the file menu and select show info, scroll to open app with and change to stuffit or stuffit expander, Be sure you hit the change all button. In os9 open the File Exchange control panel and make sure none of them are set to LimeWire. Again set the .sit files to open with stuffit or stuffit expander.

I am using os 9.2.2 I have looked at the file exchange menus there is nothing for limewire docs. when I set one it only gave me microsoft entourage as a exchange program? So now I am stuck.

Your File Exchange control panel only gave you Entourage to open sit files? 1st you need to have stuffit or stuffit expander on your computer. Next, Open File Exchange control panel, Hit the PC Exchange tab, make sure both the Open PC extentions ect... and Open unmapped files ect... boxes are checked. Now scroll down the list for PC extention to SIT If it is not there you can make one by hitting the add button, if there is one it should be set to stuffit expander. You can change it by hitting change button. Either way the same boxes come up next. If all goes well the change button a search for applications window comes through with stuffit expander among your choices. If you are adding type SIT in the Extension: (top box) Now scroll down to suffit expander or hit the select button and go to stuffit expander and select it. Next set the File Type: to SITD if it is not already set for you. For the rest you may need to hit the Show advanced options box or it may allready be in the right half of your window. Here goes Set Name: Stuffit Archive Mime Type: application/x-stuffit Check both Map Incoming And Map Outgoing. The Data Format is Binary Data and the Handle by: should be set to Processing with application Application: Stuffit expander. Hope this all helps.

To avoid all the techy crap: just drag the .sit file to the icon of StuffIt Expander.

Yes that will open a .sit file, but I belive the problem was all the sit files downloaded were coming up as LimeWire files. By adding this to the control panel they should download correctly even using this P.O.S.