Shoutbox

I don't like 6.2. When you type a message, you can't even copy/paste in from the input field, because that would replace smiles with spaces. Also, like the topic starter said, gets replaced by <) instead. I'd love a feature to turn off that annoying emoticon parsing while typing your messages.
Another thing is that from time to time, Messenger has 2 icons in my system tray, 1 gray square and 1 real icon. They both go to the same contact list when clicked, and I don't have any other Messenger versions installed, so it's really Messenger 6.2 that's causing it.
Also, Messenger seems to hang more often than in the past, and since I installed it, often I can't get my messages through to my contacts.

In all: I'd love to see them make Messenger 6.3 (or 7?) more like 6.1...