Live Messenger - MSVCR80.dll missing

Hi. I have just installed Windows Live Messenger and the installation
completed without any errors. When the program was run for the first time the
following error message was displayed:

msnmsgr.exe - Unable To Locate Component
This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

I have already tried reinstalling the program several times to no avail.
Please let me know if you know how I can fix this problem.
Thanks

you could always try downloading the dll and placing it in C:\WINDOWS\system

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dl....shtml?msvcr80

Thanks for the response! I tried doing this and then started Live Messenger
again. This time the following error was displayed:

The application failed to initialize properly (0x800000003). Click on OK to
terminate the application.

Does anyone have any ideas?