I have AIM and Trillian (which among other things connects to the AIM network, besides slicing and dicing and always remembering to put the seat up). AIM itself gets booted off the network every 5 minutes, but Trillian stays connected with no problem. This is ironic (don’tchya think) considering the war AOL was having with Trillian a while back, where they kept changing the protocol so Trillian couldn’t connect reliably, and Trillian’s team kept releasing patches to catch up, each time. Now the situation is a bit reversed, because I wanted to use AIM, but Trillian is the rock solid client now. Interesting. Although, I know reinstalling AIM will solve my problems. Laziness persists.