MSN Messenger insists I download new version, then dumps my contact list!
 

Tried to launch MSN Messenger but kept getting a connection error that mentioned firewalls. Restarted the PC, tried to launch it again again and got a notice about a new version available. Downloaded it, it let me log in but tells me:

"Your contact list (shown below) does not yet have anyone in it.
Click Add a Contact below to start creating your list."

If my contact list is stored on their server and it allowed me to connect using the account I wonder where everybody went?:(

Man, I've been having problems with my messenger all day!:(

upgrades/patches always seeming to fuck shit up these days..
had similar problems with icq and battlefield 1942 :(

Bill Gates hears your concerns and he will get right on it.

the inhability to operate a software and its updates isnt usually the softwares fault, its the stupidity of the user.

LOL, but I've been launching Messenger via the same icon for 5 or 6 years... where oh where did I go wrong?:1orglaugh

That has to suck... :1orglaugh

I can connect to AIM and ICQ through Trillian but it isn't accepting MSN connection...

msn messenger usually works fine for me, been using it since 98. hopefully you'll get contacts back

one time when i upgraded to the latest version i kept crashing my machine.

seemed to sort itself out though

my trillian pro is working fine with other people on MSN...

:thumbsup :thumbsup

Completely normal. MSN messenger filters useful contacts from useless. I guess you need new friends :)

MSN / AOL is gay.

Get ICQ.

Well, it's still messed up. Once consolation, at least I can still see my contacts in Trillian even though it won't connect to MSN... I can retrieve the addresses I want to keep and get them to auth me again. Luckily MSN is just a few friends and family. I still don't see how the upgrade lost the contact list since that is stored on their sever accessd by username and password.