on my powerbook Limewire works smoothly
however after instalation on my iMac (leopard) when I try to start up L the icon jumps a couple of times in the dock and then disappears without starting up L
what's bothering mu Mac???

May I ask which video (graphics) card you have in your imac?

I also cannot use the recent version on my intel, so I jumped back to LW 4.16

this is what's on my mac right now:

ATI Radeon X1600:

Chipsetmodel: ATY,RadeonX1600
Type: Beeldscherm
Bus: PCIe
Breedte PCIe-baan: x16
VRAM (totaal): 128 MB
Fabrikant: ATI (0x1002)
Apparaatcode: 0x71c5
Revisiecode: 0x0000
Versie EFI-besturingsbestand: 01.00.068

so LW 4.16 should do the job?

It should work yes, do you still have a copy?

not realy, but I suppose I can find it on the net?

however, after downloading the file my Mac won't install
message: you can't continue, there is nothing to install

erm ... that's odd.

Did you trash the other version? Also make sure there's no installimewire receipt package.