Shoutbox

Hey guys, ok, here's the story, bear with me!

I was tweaking my step mom's new PC a couple days ago.  She is Chinese.   I turned on her MSN messenger which is the new 'Live' version.   I don't use the new LIVE version personally.   Well, most of the writing is Chinese, because the step mom is Chinese.   When Live signed me in, a window popped up in the top left hand side.   The only part I could read was the name and email address.  Knowing that in MSN 7.5 when this happens, it's the 'this contact wishes to add you' window.   So I click what was the agree (it was in Chinese, but the mom said it said agree!) tab.   Now LIVE put it in a new folder 'other contacts'.  He was OFFLINE.   

Ok, so I get home the next day and turn on MSN 7.5 that I use, and that new contact is not there!   I don't have that 'other contacts' folder either.

So at work today, I still use the old 7.5, but other PC's here have LIVE messenger on them.   I logged onto one of them, and voila!  My new contact is still there in the folder 'other contacts'.

I slid him into one of my other folders and logged off.  Went back to my desk and logged onto 7.5, and he's NOT THERE!!  So I checked on the LIVE messenger again and he's there still, but on 7.5 he's not!

Why is this?!!

I am not familiar with MSN Live.   And this one was Chinese writing.   Could LIVE have simply been telling me that a person in my emails had messenger and wasn't part of my contacts on my messenger and was asking 'ME' if I wanted to add him?  As opposed to him requesting me? 

I'd just ask him, if he was online!

Sorry for the long post!

Thanks for the help!