Thanx MarsBarr for ur input. In fact, i uninstalled the leaked version of Msn, deleted the registry entries of msn messnger, rebooted the computer, and then installed microsofts official prevew version – just so it would be a clean install. Still had the problem. 🙁 I did that procedure also for the preview version ( uninstalling, deleting registry entries and then reinstalling ), but still had problems 🙁
But these problems are happening sporadically, if i can use that term. Sometimes it works OK and sometimes it doesnt work properly. I noticed one time when i logged in with a different msn account that it worked OK (i saw the other person’s display pic, my messages where gettin thru and i was gettin messages back) but when i switched to my normal account it was back to problemville. Also there is some delay in recieving messages.

I did download the official preview from mircosoft but i still have the same problem.