Shoutbox

I've read the portion about why it takes so long to log, and thats fine. My problem is that my chat logs are separating by each conversation, for example, when I open a conversation, message, then close, it records as:

Blahblah@hotmail.com.txt

.. but if I were to open, message and close again it would appear as a new file:

Blahblah@hotmail.com(2).txt


Is there a way that I can clump them together so it wont make a new file everytime?

My other problem is that I have so many of these separate files for people I talk to more often, that some of the files are appearing blank when I open them.

For example: 

Blahblah@hotmail.com (4).txt
Blahblah@hotmail.com (5).txt
Blahblah@hotmail.com (6 ).txt

all of these text files when I open them have nothing in them.

Also, I'm using the newest version, 4.23.0.276, on Windows XP.

Thank you!