ok i tried both ways alrdy. doens't seem to work. But then i went to this link b4 i d/led the messenger plus.
http://www.msgstuff.com/installing-msn-windows-live-messenger-skins/
it told me to change the msgsres.dll to a backup. and when i rmb i did that i went back and changed back to the original name, then my WLM popped back up but it gives me a new error now (error code 8007007E)