I am running Windows XP, with Messenger 14.0.8117.416

I have cleared the contacts cache, done a clean install of Messenger, and Windows updates are all up to date.  I have repeated this process several times and still the problem persists.  I also did a system restore back to when Messenger was last working, and again the problem persists.

Your help would be appreciated as this is very frustrating !

1) I get following errors while I try to download windows Updates

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