Msn Messenger for Mac wont sign in after upgrade

Ive just upgraded to tiger 10.4.9. Now for some reason my msn wont sign in. I run parallels, and xp as the guest OS and msn will not sign in on the guest either. Seems to be a port issue. Anyone else experienced this, or know how to testfix it?
Conor

The current version of Microsoft Messenger is 6.0.2, which was released on January 30th, 2007. It works fine on my computer, although sometimes it won't sign in on the first try, but the second attempt always succeeds, even after the 10.4.9 update.
It wasn't working on a friend's computer the other day. The problem turned out to be that an older version was installed at the root of the drive, which caused MSN Messenger to immediately crash after signing in every time. Deleting this older version resolved the problem.
You might also try deleting or renaming the plist files associated with MSN Messenger located in your home directory in Library/Preferences/Microsoft. Note this is NOT the Library directory at the root level of your drive, but the Library directory inside your home folder.

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