weird message

I keep getting an error message out of nowhere that says “Unknown error. Try again later” NOw i noticed that when a buddy logged on that the message came up, but it doesnt do that for everyone. And it just did it again for seemigly no reason. It started today. And if this helps i did try to connect my cam with an aol user today but it didnt work -i use aim and never used a cam before. My camera was not hooked up or plugged in when the error popped up. And i restarted the computer from earlier today… sooo, i dont know. Any ideas?

May I add that i just noticed something else…I set aim so that “only users on my buddy list can contact me”, but i have my screen name linked and I can see sn 1 on sn 2 buddylist, but sn1 doesnt have sn2 as a buddy so sn2 shouldnt be able to see that sn 1 is online or make contact. I should probably make that a separate post but thought there might be a connection to the previous problem.

I use aim 5.5.3595

thanks