need help for an oldie girl

[ratahi]

Hello
I am new to computers and also new to posting messages. I am having trouble with limewire and wonder if anyone can help me.
I have had limewire installed and working on computer which is windows xp. (my grandson loaded it on). Then I did a stupid thing of doing a restore on my computer and limewire went. I down loaded again and go it to desktop (shortcut) but when I double click to open it it won't do anything. I uninstalled and reinstalled about 10 times and made sure I cleared everything but still the same. I have read the posts but don't understand any of it. One post said to go into limewire tools but the program won't open for me to do this. I have java and gnutella on computer.
Hopefully someone will take time to help in normal lanauage for me. would I have lost all of grandsons songs. (don't think he will be happy when he gets home from holidays)
Thanking anyone in advanced.