Nevermind my last post people! As usual I took a closer look at what CookieRevised (
) wrote, and it should solve my problems!!
In his most recent post, CookieRevised linked to another post explaining "differences between Win Msgr 4.7 and 5.0".
This post has more info relating to Win2000.
For anyone interested, Win2000 users will need to use Windows Messenger 5.0.0482.
I haven't tried this as yet, but info on the Micro$oft site indicates this is the way to go.
When I have a free second I'll install and let you all know how it turns out.