"Go figure.To answer your other question, no I have not tried Kopete on another yahoo account as I only have this one account, but I may give it a try.also, here is a link to the Kopete files on sourceforge:http://sourceforge.net/projects/kopete/files/I am still curious, why does SW 12.2 use what looks like a newer version of Kopete )0.12.7) while SW 13.0 uses v 0.70.4 dates 2003 ?" . . . .