Im intrested in helping, im not a great coder (which im not sure if you had to do for the old version, which was just simple reshacking) but im a graphics designer, ill help where i can
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And 9.0 is a longs way a way. Its designed to be relesed in 2009. But then again, so was Windows Live Messenger 8.5. Lol. It was known as messenger 2008.
Ive been on the scene since 7.5. Not into the skinning scene though. Been visiting mess.be non stop since WLM 8.0 Beta. Fairly good community that is.
Anyway, its great to see another user at the msgplus forums!