Charles,
Your best bet at this stage...
Windows Live Messenger
http://windowslivehelp.com/product.aspx?productid=2
....winston
"Charles Galloway" wrote in message news:...
I had just restarted the computer and am using Win XP sp3, and the
latest buid of WLMessenger 2009
AppName: msnmsgr.exe AppVer: 14.0.8117.416 AppStamp:4bc935af
ModName: kernel32.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.5781 ModStamp:49c4f482
fDebug: 0 Offset: 00012afb