I got sick of it freezing too sarah, but worse.. it dropped messages. outbound ones. randomly.
so if i say something like
me: hey
me: did you try the new site
me:
www.x.com
them: how about a link?
me: I just gave you a link
ad nauseum. It would drop like 5% of messages, totally randomly. with no indication that anything was wrong. that can lead to some very messy problems lol