Shoutbox

I was using MSN6 for ages, with MsgPlus! and that worked great.

However, since I upgraded to MSN7 (when it was officially released as a full product by MS), it has done nothing but give me troubles (and 3 or 4 of my friends have the same). On the other hand, my sister doesn't have any of the problems I have.

Most of the problems appear during mass convos, but some appear in 1-2-1 convos as well. Someone suggested MsgPlus was the problem, but even when running MSN7 without Plus installed, it is still very buggy.

A brief outline of the problems I (and my friends) experience with MSN7:

Emoticons randomly disappear and appear.

Handwriting sometimes says "Not all recipients can view handwriting so all handwriting will be displayed as text" (along those lines). We all know it works fine - this one tends to happen in mass convos more though.

Transfers will sometimes not appear correctly when you try to send them to someone, and then will say (after a good half hour) "transfer could not be sent".

Sometimes I will be talking to someone and it will suddenly say "this message couldn't be delivered to all recipients". The message is normally one that I sent to the person quite a while before, which they received perfectly fine.

You will be having a convo, and it will say "blah-de-blah has left this conversation. You ask the person why they left in a new window, and they say "I haven't left the conversation".

It does loads of weird things all the time. I downloaded my version from MSN, and I think it is the latest version (7.0.0813).

I would use another program like Trillian or GAIM, but then I can't use MsgPlus!.

Im not sure there is anything that can be done to fix it. Im just having a good rant . If you have had similar and know whats wrong, let me know.