I am having the same problem as well. Almost any time I try to log in with MSN it crashes gaim. On rare occasions I am able to log into MSN with gaim. Uninstall and reinstall of gaim did not fix the issue. I am using Gaim 1.5 on XPSP2 P4 Dual Core 1gb mem.
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