Shoutbox

a personalized status is just text added to your msn display name, its not an actuall status like the built-in ones of WLM (eg. Available, Busy, Away)   so sometimes your contacts names may just not update for awhile, ive noticed this with my WLM before.

slow internet connections can sometimes be the reason for contacts names not getting updated immediatly- as i found out when i had to tempuarally use my moble as a modem (which ran @ dial-up speeds) but when i used broadband again, contacts names immediatly updated.