MSN Messenger broken (but it's an OS X question, I promise)

Hi all,
I'm running OS X 10.6.4 and since installing it MSN Messenger 7.0.2 seems to be broken (but only for my profile). Whenever I sign in ALL my contacts are blocked and I can't unblock them. However, when I sign in as another OS X user MSN seems to work ok, even when I sign in as the same account I use as my own account. This is why I think it's a profile issue.
I've dragged MSN to the trash and removed all signs I can find of an MSN profile but the problem persists when I reinstall (even when I 'upgrade' to MSN 8 Beta).
So, the question ... is there a way that I can find what files an app is using when it starts and therefore delete them? ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Messenger.plist and also ~/Documents/MSN Messenger Data ... it still remembers my login settings, though. Ideally I want to delete everything MSN uses and start from a clean slate but I'm 99% sure this isn't an OS X issue so I don't want to do anything extreme like reinstall OS X (esp. for a Microsoft app issue).
Can anyone help? I'm a bit too new to OS X to troubleshoot this sort of thing so any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Fix:
• For Messenger versions earlier than 7.0 on Mac OS X:
a. Close MSN Messenger for Mac.
b. Click the icon for the hard disk drive.
c. Click Users, and then click your system user name.
d. Click Library, click Preferences, and then click Microsoft.
e. Drag com.microsoft.Messenger.plist, com.microsoft.MessengerDaemon.plist, Microsoft Messenger User Cache, and Microsoft Messenger User Cache.plist to the trash.
• For Messenger version 7.0 and later versions on Mac OS X:
a. Close MSN Messenger for Mac.
b. Click the icon for the hard disk drive.
c. Click Users, and then click your user name.
d. Click Library, click Preferences, and then click Microsoft.
e. Drag com.microsoft.Messenger.plist and com.microsoft.Messenger.rtc.plist to the trash.
f. Open the Microsoft folder inside the preferences folder, and then drag Microsoft Messenger User Cache.plist to the trash.

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