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Originally posted by absorbation
You can't have a portable Windows Live Messenger because is heavily relies on registry entries. You can use alternative clients (like GAIM which you have come across) otherwise I wouldn't bother using anything else. Web Messengers are ideal if the network you are working on doesn't block the websites 
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You can build portable apps of WLM/Messenger.
However you need to use an application such as Thinstall/MojoPac which are designed to "virtualize" the application and intercept any registry or file calls and redirect them to the appropriate place.
Thinstall -
http://www.thinstall.com/
MojoPac -
http://www.mojopac.com
