Hi ebene,

sorry for the delay. I must admit I have no idea what's wrong with your system. I had the same idea like sberlin but your Extensions directory is empty (i.e. there are no conflicting packages).

The only advise I can give you at the moment is: check your system and watch for anomalies like the "tiny" Terminal window. I've never seen (or heard of ) a such effect. The smallest window size I can set is:

Hi again ebene (and welcome Petti)

Here are the links for Safe Boot and Repair Permissions (they're also in the Tips and Tricks Forum).

Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3: How to start in Safe Mode

Repairing Permissions

Another idea to check if the problem is somewhere in your Home setup or preferences is to create a new Admin user, and install LimeWire there. This will be as if you'd never installed LimeWire before.

The OSX help menu has the instructions (just paste "Adding a user account to your computer" into the Finder's Help window).

The new user, will have its own password, Home Folder and prefs, which will give you the closest to a fresh start without doing a system reinstall (and it's easily deleted from Accounts afterwards).

If the probelm repeats here too, then you'll have eliminated the user setup as the problem. Post back--

Sure is good that Roger and Sam, who understand coding, are aware of the situation (thanks guys for taking the time).

stief,

OK, so this is what I've tried from you last suggestion. I created and installed LW in a new user account and have the same problem.

- rkapsi, I launched terminal in the new user account and it opened up like it's supposed to, I switched back to my account and launched it again to have that supper minni window open.

Just figured out my terminal prob.
I went to apple support on line and found Article ID:25730. it turnes out that Terminal needs Apple's Monaco font. If that font is disabled or missing, the Terminal window will be really small and unusable.

hi ebene

thanks for the tip and ref to the terminal problem.

So--since a new user has the same problem, at least we know the problem is probably in the system, not the user setup.

rkapsi and sberlin will know more about the java pieces required, but I don't know which java pieces (or fonts?) are required to draw the results. Hmmm--have you tried switching to a different theme (from the View Menu), and resizing each of the three panels of the search pane?

There were some problems with java updates on OS 10.3 (see http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2099.html). You may want to try the test in terminal
java -version
and see if you get the "hot spot error" mentioned in the article.
Anyway, a java reinstall shouldn't hurt. Here's the link http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120309