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I posted a question when this happened in Firefox 4 and it was never resolved.

You can try disabling emoticons and image previews in your IM appearance settings in your Skype options to see if that changes anything.  Some people running Windows XP have had odd graphical and resource issues with versions of Skype above 7.5.  The alternative solution would be to downgrade to Skype 7.5 for the time being.  You can find links to 7.5 in the thread below. http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Skype-7-6-crashes-on-startup/m-p/4031560/highlight/true#M353247 

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