Shoutbox

There are lots of skins now but they are just changes in graphics and not layout of the messenger, which is ok but it would be better if the client itself could be compleatly changed, i know the only current way for this to happen is by having a new client compleatly, but i was just reading a post in a MSN 8 concept thread which was interesting:

What someone needs to do is create a program that hooks to MSN and open its own skinable contact list etc, while your original MSN is running in the tray. I know one way of doing this which is placing a small program similar to a proxy between MSN and the server and filtering the information passed through, i used this method to be able to change peoples names in my local MSN it worked well.

The alternative would be to create a messenger client from scratch... and I have done this, its a long hard time consuming experience, especially with the updated protocols that come with the new messengers.

So is there one available now, or would somone be able to make something like this? So people can finaly skin msn but change is so much you could make msn look like the msn 8 concepts now, or make it look like or IM clients, it would be cool!