I would have to say my favorite is aim because all of my friends are on it, and it seems like the most used. They have a ton of work to do, aim really isn’t that great. I don’t like MSN one bit, I am surprised it is the best. I think out of all yahoo is probably the best, but the buddy list/ interface is waaaaaaaaaaaaay to big.
You could always buy good old windows XP. But other than that it looks like you are in a pretty deep hole.
sry, contacts* and wouldn’t*:)
I also downloaded odigo 4.0 a while ago. I loved it, I personaly liked it better than trillian, but it was really confusing. My aim conacts would work, because they don’t have the plugin for 4.0 yet. So I downloaded the old version and the plugin, and it loaded like 4 out of 70 of my buddies on the list, and even after they were on, it said they were ofline even when they weren’t. Odigo has a lot of bugs to work out. In the mean time I am using trillian.