icq=aol?
 

ok when I tried logging on all my names were gone, which is not surprising since there is all this talk about it, but it has people requesting me to be their buddy, and its saying add to aol buddys. I think AOL has officially taken over ICQ. I know they bought it years ago but i think they are finally starting to merge them together.

Yes, AOL has owned ICQ for a few years now. The take over started on day one with merging the two clients to similiar formats - nothing new . . . and nothing to do with the problems at hand imho