The most logical explanation would be Microsoft disabling those features temporarily (and that would disable the links to msn music too). When that happens, several of those "junk services" are disabled (I'm not sure which actually are).
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Originally posted by abermudez02
And thanks for the info about the little hovering contact menu. That's too bad cause I really liked that feature... made it easy to get to a contact's log file! 
You can right-click the contact and choose "Messenger Plus! Extras" -> "Open Chat Log..."
