I had this problem too - from the official Limewire site until I swapped from IE to Safari.

hey i just figured it out
just change the file name- add a ".dmg" to the endof it, and it will change from the microsoft file into what it shouldlook like
yes!!!

That's not a bad idea but not the end solution for everybody. Some browsers don't downld the file properly & you end up with an incomplete file (the size a little smaller than it should be.) I use Netscape & am very wary of downlding dmg's with it. Internet Explorer also suffers similar problems. For safety I always use Safari. I can't speak properly for Firefox as I found it doesn't run properly on my system anyway (very slow ... takes up the whole window, etc.) & I can't remember whether I was able to downld dmg's with it or not.

I downloaded lime wire(basic version) for Mac OS X (10.4.8) but I can't open the file. It keeps opening up the installer. I can't tell if you solved this problem in other posts. Can you help me out?

Which browser did you use to download LimeWire? The 1st thing to do is use Safari to download it with.

yeah me too... i'm using OSX v.10.4.9 and whenever I press the LimeWire icon, which looks sort of like a white hard drive, it just goes to the installer again and again. I used Safari too...so....what now?