MSN Messenger 7.5 Error 80072ee6

I’ve looked around here to find the answer to what could possibly be the solution for this one, but haven’t found anything. Sorry if this is a repost anyway.

My emoticons stopped working in my v.7.0 the other day and when I noticed that there was a new version out there I thought I’d update to solve the problem. I downloaded v. 7.5, but since then I haven’t been able to log in at all.I’ve had some problems after downloading or updating Messenger in the past, but this time I’ve tried everything I can think of and it’s still not working.

First I did the troubleshooting in Messenger and it told me that the settings in my firewall was the problem. I went into Norton Firewall and changed the settings/checked that everything was on ‘permit all’ then tried to log in again. It still wouldn’t work and the same error message ‘error 80072ee6’ came up. I ran the troubleshooting again and this time I got green ticks for everything.

I’ve also tried checking the conenction to the server under the Tools menu and everything seems fine, the message I get for everything is that I should be able to connect, but somehow it still won’t work. Neither does disabling both the firewall and anti-virus program temporarily before attempting to sign in or trying to log in with a different user name.

I am able to run both Yahoo!Messenger and Windows Messenger without problems though, if that helps, I am behind a router with Norton Internet Security (2003 with updates) and Norton Anti-Virus (2003 with updates) and I’m using Windows XP.

If anyone’s got an idea of what else I can try to do to sort this out I’d be very grateful. Thanks.