I just noticed this bug in MsgPlus after installing the 7.0.0732 release of MSN.
When typing ( in a conversation, all pages display the standard MSN emoticons.
I am running MsgPlus 3.5.
I thought the problem might have been related to the number of emoticons I had installed, so i removed a heap and this didn't alter the problem.
Noticed a german (??) post which seemed to be about a similar topic.. anyone know what the translated response was???