Shoutbox

hey, i was wondering if NE one out here is experiencing the same problem as me....

lately when using my msn when i type something it has about a 5sec delay before it appears in the chat window.  also msn seems to 'freeze' or something during this delay because i'll alt+tab to another window no problem but when i alt+tab back to msn it takes about 5 secs to respond....

everything seems to be having a 5sec delay actually. my toasts for contacts signing in are late. i know this because i'll get a msg from someone who has just signed in before i get the toast. also, i have msgplus3 on my puter, and the toasts for that program show up before msn's official toasts popup.   this has never happened before

i've tried uninstalling/reinstalling msn and it's still slow....

i've also spybotted and adawared until i'm blue in the face.  nothing seems to help....

what's the deal? a friend of mine is experiencing the same problem. she does not have msgplus or NE other plugins on her puter. we both us xp for an OS.  we both also use norton utilities for our firewall, but that's nvr caused a problem before....

any help is greatly appreciated!

thanx bunches!
jamie;0)