People do actually read this site. But, thanks for posting. MSN has actually been having trouble for the past week with their MSN Passport login as well as with MSN Messenger. I think the two are related. I for one use a program called [url=http://www.trillian.cc/]Trillian[/url] which allows you to use one program to talk to all of your friends on MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, IRC, etc. It is great and free. I have been using it for years and it is great.