Hey I thought I would let you all in on a secret...there is a program called Trillian that will allow you all to use ONE chat client for AIM, AOL, MSN, and ICQ. no this is not SPAM...I figure many of us use diffrent IM services....and this Prog allows you to connect to all of them at one time useing ONE program....
the link is http://www.trillian.cc
BTW...it's free