You are likely running into the flash crash. Try updating your version of
flash.
http://www.adobe.com
Cheers
Nicole
"Paul Kendrick" <> wrote in message
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> Im running Vista Business 32bit at home, i downloaded and instlled
> messenger
> fine. Worked great for all of twenty minutes when up pops a box telling me
> a
> new version is available. before i click no i dont want it (or something
> along those lines) it downloaded and installed 8.1 beta. as a result as
> soon
> as messenger logs on it crashes. anyone else had this problem?