On Friday, a judge said Courtney Love was progressing in her effort to clean up her drug-fueled legal woes. But that hasn't stopped Love from regressing to mud-slinging in her longstanding feud with Dave Grohl.

The habitually troubled widow of Kurt Cobain is quoted in the new issue of Spin magazine dissing the former Nirvana drummer, saying Grohl has been "taking money from my child for years."

Love has been sniping at Grohl for years.

The public falling out dates back to at least 2001, when Love went to court to block Grohl and fellow Nirvana survivor Krist Novoselic from putting out a box set of band rarities. The suit also sought to give Love sole rights to the Grammy-winning Seattle grunge pioneer's music.

That touched off a legal back-and-fourth that saw Grohl and Novoselic launch a countersuit calling Love "irrational, mercurial, self-centered, unmanageable, inconsistent and unpredictable." They labeled the former Hole singer a "greedy prima donna" with a "waning recording and acting career" and accused her of "exploiting" her late husband to "further her own career goals." The two even asked a court to force Love to undergo a psychiatric exam.

Both sides appealed to Nirvana fans, with Love issuing a statement: "Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews and took responsibility for the band's business decisions."

By 2002, they had seemingly patched things up, reaching a deal that saw them share the Nirvana rights and split album-sale royalties three ways. (Love also retains sole control of Cobain's lucrative music-publishing royalties.) A best-of compilation CD Nirvana followed later that year, and the long-gestating collection With the Lights Out finally saw the light of day last year.

But the wounds apparently haven't healed, especially with Love reportedly facing serious financial problems. (She told Blender magazine last year that she was swindled out of $40 million by a "fiduciary institution" and was $4 million in debut, thanks in part to her Everest-sized mountain of legal bills.)

Love's latest round of Grohl dissing appears in Spin's August issue, on stands this Friday. In the article, she also takes aim at his public persona.

"Dave gets to walk away unscathed and be the happy guy in rock, when he's one of the biggest jerks," said Love.

Steve Martin, who handles publicity for Grohl's current band, Foo Fighters, said Monday the musician would not respond to Love's comments. (The Foos, who just finished a video shoot in Los Angeles for "DOA," are currently on tour in support of their new double album, In Your Honor.)

But Grohl did tell Spin he was at a loss to explain his title as rock's Mr. Nice Guy.

"There's thousands of nice guys in the world! Maybe it's because I have a goofy smile and people are like, 'Awww, he's like a little kid,' " he told the magazine. Then, perhaps belying the moniker, he got in a dig at Love, saying maybe the nice-guy status as something to do with the fact he doesn't "do coke"--a possible reference to Love's substance-abuse woes.

Although a Los Angeles judge on Friday extolled Love's "progress" in a court-ordered drug treatment program, she is still dogged by reports of a drug problem. Two nights before the hearing, she was rushed to a hospital. Paramedics initially said they were responding to an overdose call and police took a report on the incident; however, her publicist claimed Love was just "feeling faint."

Love's treatment is part of sentence for a misdemeanor count of being under the influence two years ago. She still has two other felony drug charges pending and is due in court for a hearing next month.

Just last week Love regained sole custody of her 12-year-old daughter with Cobain, Frances Bean.