It takes forever and many tries to get contected to messenger. when it does connect it’s missing some of my plug ins. I also lost my smileys in IM. I completely uninstalled and installed smiley central several times and still no smileys. I have given up and uninstalled smiley central. I also believe I may have some adware or spyware on my comp. I have scanned w/mcaffree and yahoo antispyware and it’s coming up clean. something is not right tho. all my icons on my desk top moved from where I had placed them to different locations. could it be the new be beta messenger that is causing the problem?