Messenger docking onto Desktop?

Hi there
Very new to the Mac, been using PC's all my life so excuse me if this sounds like a newbie-type question. Just installed msn messenger(version 5) on my I-mac G5. What I find weird and don't quite know what to do is when you start up messenger, it loads up what looks like a drive saying microsoft messenger on the desktop. Fine, dont know why or if this is the norm but it when your finished with using msn and quit the program the drive is still sitting there. I know I can just eject it, but it seems like a nuisance to do this everytime I load up messenger. Anyway arounf this?
Cheers
Sarfraz.....loving macs but cursing microsoft!

What I find weird and don't quite know what to do
is when you start up messenger, it loads up what
looks like a drive saying microsoft messenger
on the desktop.
This is called a Disk Image and how many OS X applications are recieved when downloaded. If you keep the application in the Disk Image, technically it has not been installed on the hard drive.
Launch/open the Disk Image and drag the Messenger application from the Disk Image to your applications folder to copy and install the application on the hard drive. Eject the Disk Image and you can delete the original download that contains the Disk Image.
After doing so if you want to access the application from the Dock, select (don't open) and drag the Messenger application from the Applications folder to the Dock to create an alias (or shortcut in Windows speak) of the application in the Dock.

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