Shoutbox

Hello. I used to have Instant Messenger open up with a login page greeting me with my saved account's display picture as it waited for me to input my password. However, now the display picture is gone from that window for whatever reason - I still have the same account saved as default, I still have the same display picture in-program, I did not install or or uninstall any new IM add-ons which weren't there before (and with which IM successfully started up hundreds of times, always having the display picture greet me from the sign-in page). I tried changing the display picture whilst signed in, I tried restarting the program, I tried restarting the computer, I even tried reinstalling the program - nothing worked. I would really, really appreciate if somebody would be able to help me out on this, because it's bugging me big-time...