LW hangs up when users try to connect

[OldHarley]

Hello to everyone on this forum from a new desperate member.

I need some help to get my son back into Limewire because I am tired of his using my LW to download his songs.

I am the admin on a single, simple eMac G4 computer with 3 users, running OSX.3.9., 256Mb RAM and only about 5G of harddrive left due to music files.

I have not experienced any problems on Limewire 4.10.9, but my favorite user, my son, started experiencing a hangup when trying to load Limewire. It would stop at various points in the loading sequence. I upgraded to 4.12.6 and while he still has the same problems, I do not have any problem getting into the new LW and downloading, searching, etc.

Prior to this post I tried the fixes referenced in the sticky notes, but to no avail. Maybe this is a problem with my Mac system setup options and not Limewire, but I am looking for any help.

Also, this problem seemed to affect all 3 users, since I am the only one able to use LW.

What I have checked so far: 6346 Port on and gnutella traffic getting thru. Test successful. Java 1.4.2_09 has no segmentation fault. Tossed LW prefs. and removed com.apple.quicktime plugin preferences.plist. Reloaded LW from Safari. Did Safe boot and repaired disk permissions. Quicktime is already up to 7.1.3. so I guess the LW conflict was fixed probably at least a year ago...which reminds me, most of the sticky fixes are also somewhat old, like me.

Anyway, suggestions will be most appreciated. Thanks