Shoutbox

is your plugin based on msn proxy?? the thing i didnt like about yours and the reason why is started writting mine is that to add a bot you would need as requirements too many things: msgplus! msnproxy AND the plugin dll AND besides that, telling the user to configure his/her msn to user socket4, which most regular users would be scared of doing, and when you have a connection through the proxy if you happen to close the proxy you would lose your connection
im not using hooks, but frm what i read, i dont completely understand why you need to set msn to use socket4, since your intercepting API calls, firewalls do it without configuring anything in every single app

good luck
hope to see your plugin soon, keep up the good work