sorry for the no info i would love to provide it if i was able to.
the system is a crossfire 5 board bulldozer processor, 1250 power supply and 3 5970, all 3 5970 cores are running stock clocks with me lowered to 300, temps are from 62-70 not any hotter then that. ive tried running the java commands but like i said cg pretty much freezes up not even a min after starting it i just wanted to try an older version of cg to see if it was somthing to do with the new version or if it was me.
If you can't actually run the API command fast enough (i.e. it's a short term failure)
Then run cgminer -D -T --verbose 2>log.log
and the log.log file created should have something useful in it explaining either what problems are happening or at the least, the last thing it was doing before it hung
As for getting older versions, they are at the same place the current version is.
Since you have now mentioned the cards you are using, what are the full cgminer options you are running with?