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Kazza would need to be run as root or admin, because if you don't all of your downloads will fail. Atleast this has been my experience with kazaa. I was just giving him an example of what i do, i have a limited account, and when i run a program i always right click "run as" to avoid viruses/trojans. If you run kazza on a root/admin account, whenever you recieve a virus it is immediately able to execute itself because it has all of the appropriate permissions. If your on a limited account running kazza as root, the viruses/trojans will not be able to distribute their payload. That is unless you download an executable and then run it as root without having scanned it with an antivirus.
I can only suggest finding out why you need admin privs to get Kazaa working. If there's any problem with Kazaa itself you will be in a lot of trouble. Maybe your account doesn't have write permission to the incoming folder? Kazaa shouldn't need any admin privs.