Shoutbox

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a feature I haven't yet found, or if I should be looking through scripts (I did a search though), or if it's even possible, but is there any way I can have personal messages stored in my logs, along with the person's name?
I was an msn 6 user until windows messenger live came along, and I found it more "useable" than msn 7, so I missed the whole yearish era of msn 7 when the personal message thing came along, and this was probably brought up many times, and for some reason or another, was turned down, so I'm sorry if this is a very redundant question. (Again, I did a search as best I could, and couldn't find any topics about this)

Secondly, is there a way to go back to viewing my logs in my own viewer, rather than the log viewer that comes with Messenger Plus? IE my text logs would be opened in my txt file editor...

Thirdly, (I saw a few topics about this, but I couldn't get anywhere with them) is there a way to decrypt all of my logs? Like, I've got roughly three years worth of encrypted logs (all with the same password) that are split up into their respective months, and for obvious reasons, Messenger Plus won't automatically decrypt the files in all those folders. Is there a tool, or a script to give it a password, the directory(s), and then have it decrypt the logs, and save them as .txts?

Thanks in advance for the help, and I'm sorry for redundant questions, but like I said, I completely skipped msn 7, and my searches weren't of much help.