It seems to be coming and going now. At first I thought it might be some settings I put on tweakui, because right after I fooled with that aim came back on the next reboot. However, a couple reboots later aim started having the same problem. So, my problem is the same as ngupt02's - it comes and goes. Unfortunately I screwed up IIS when I tried to go to a system restore point right after I installed XP, so I'm going to have to reformat my desktop for the third time in two days. Funny that my laptop has the exact same configuration as my desktop and does not have this problem. *knock on wood*
BTW windows messenger doesn't work at all. ( I dispatched it using the group policy editor). *Turns to face Redmond* Muhahahhahahahahahhaha
Does Trillian let you download your buddy list from aol's servers?