I have the same problem here. It is annoying. But it seems to only be happening with LimeWire on my pc. Nothing else has that problem, so it must be somehow related to LimeWire.

I should add that I'm using Java 1.6.0 03-b05 which is the latest version. My LW is a bit dated but I had the same problems with the newest version of Frostwire... Azureus, uTorrent, and eMule.

I upgraded to the newest LW Pro 4.16.2... and it's even worst than the old one 4.13. This one stopped working when I was in options changing the listening port and I could not shut it down the options panel down. So I tried to close LW in task manager. It remained open. After about 10 minutes the LW panel disappeared but is still running in the background. Now when I try to shut it down in task manager I get an access denied error... even though I'm operating as the administrator. WTF! Is it Limewire? Vista? The Java RTE?

ZombieGak , thanks for your reply to my other post concerning BearShare.I've read both links you've included.i'm sorry to hear you are still having problems with LW.i've been using BearShare for the past few days with no problems.i suggest you give it a try regardless of what you've read.from what i gathered, LW is one of the most dangerous p2p software crap you can put on your computer.good luck.

Gnutella should never have updated LimeWire. They should have just left it alone. Now they screwed up everyone.

What Gnutella needs to do is open an archive where the last working LimeWire version can be downloaded. Otherwise, it's up to them to fix the problem, and that could take a long time.