Let this be a lesson to you. You should have learned something from Linux and thrown an X in it somewhere. Anywhere really ... xPRIM, PRIMx, PRIXM (my personal favorite).

As far as Jabber goes, the last time I had anything to do with it was a good five years ago. And the clients for it were terrible. Most of the people I know are on AIM, having migrated from ICQ at one point or another. A few folks use MSN, sadly, leading to the painful process of acquiring another hotmail account.

On that note, things using e-mail addresses for account IDs .... not the brightest idea anyone has ever had. That's kinda like shoving my phone number into a VOIP application.