I had some problems with limewire too, and i found it too slow and buggy, not to mention full of ads when i finally did get it installed, i switched to gtk-gtnutella, which runs on the same network (gnutella) and is lighter, much faster and has a very nice interface, although the interface takes a while to get accustomed to.
http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/
of course, youll need gtk installed.