It's not the end of the world. Plus... Google Talk is gonna take it over anyway. It was better for MSN to break down before Google went through with it :-D
google messenger sucks.. Msn is alot better than google's messenger. true it's not the end of the world. You probally shot some option off or something.
I think the question marks(?) come from symbols the MSN does not recongnize. Looks like some of those symbols are russian. Do you have the latest MSN, I believe it is 7.5. If not try upgrading and see if it fixes it. Only solution I can think of.
Im not sure if you all know but GoogleTalk is still in Beta. For 1 GoogleTalk has the free mic chat. 2, its a lot cleaner looking. I personally think MSN is better at the moment but i have no doubts that GoogleTalk could become better in the later days. GoogleTalk already is fairly good, only problem is that it doesnt have any features yet.
I actually have stock in google. Go google go! As for the problem reinstall. Or update like some previous posts suggested.
I have 7.0, the latest avail for ME. It's not my comp, so I can't update to XP And try to get back on topic...