But, as to your problem, assuming you've made no configuration changes, I would bet that it's a change in IE. Have you done any Windows Updates lately?

Interesting you should ask... My computer at home is doing this using FireFox. My computer at work is brand new, fresh XP install with all the updates, and it does it also.

Since both FireFox and IE do it, it makes me think it must be some server-side change that ICQ did.

I tried to use Trillian a couple of years ago, and for reasons now forgotten I couldn't get it to work at all and rather than spend a lot of time trying to make it work I gave up on it.

I guess it's time to try it again.

tanstaafl.