Whoa, can you hear the people who use MSN Messenger scrambling for other services like Yahoo! Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger chief rival AOL Instant Messenger? :) Looks like Microsoft knew about the problems with the MSN Messenger but was less than...err open...about the problems. Oh wells, I don't have it installed and don't plan on having it installed (that is until I'm forced to have it installed when an OS installation puts it on my harddrive. :))