01:14:56: i install miranda, everything works fine. i mess around with the plugins, one of them breaks miranda so i uninstall it and the entire program - do a clean install
01:15:14: then whenever i started it, it picked up all my contacts but they were all shown as offline
01:15:27: i did a couple more reinstalls and no luck
01:15:34: then i shut down miranda and open MSN
01:16:37: and like 30 "allow" dialogue boxes pop up which i accept and then they were the only contacts on my list, 3 of these 30 were online
01:17:19: i close MSN and reopen miranda and it has picked up all my contact groups as well as it now displays the 3 that were online on MSN, but no others and the rest are, again, offline