Yahoo Buddy List Destroyed

Okay, I just installed 1.0.1, thought "this is cool" and put in my 
Yahoo, ICQ, AIM and MSN information.

I am then shown a huge assortment of buddy lists, with little rhyme 
or reason.  Some resemble lists I've had in the various programs (and 
groups), but there are buddies from mixed services within the groups, 
which is so confusing.

So, I start organizing, deleting some people here and there, 
removing, consolidating and creating groups, putting the 17 addresses 
I have for one person on 4 different services into one master "this 
person" list, etc.

One note -- for some reason, all of my ICQ buddies showed up in a 
group called "Default Group", which also included all of the people 
who were also in my Yahoo "Blocked Buddies" list.  (Why this "Blocked 
Buddies" list shows up or was even created, I don't know.  I blocked 
them for a reason.  I don't want to know they exist.)

So, I'm reorganizing everything, and then Fire crashes.

Okay, I say to myself, I guess this thing's still a bit unstable, so 
I'll just wait a few months and then give it another shot.  In the 
meantime, I was in a conversation with my fiance, so I load up Yahoo 
Messenger.

My buddy list is totally screwed up.

Groups have been removed, groups have been added, names have been 
removed (that I did NOT delete while within Fire), and there are 
multiple copies of several names in several different groups.

That's not the worst part.

I can't edit anything.

Period.

I can't rename groups, delete groups, edit groups, move groups.
I can't add buddies, delete buddies, move buddies.

The only thing I've been able to do was to add a new group, but I 
can't make any changes to it now, nor can I add anyone or move anyone 
to this, or any other, group.

I've deleted all of my preferences.  No help.
I reinstalled Yahoo Messenger.  No help.
I reinstalled Fire...now it gets even weirder.

I'd deleted my Fire preferences (yea, great), so it's starting from 
scratch again.  I put in JUST my Yahoo Messenger information.  The 
"current" list comes up, with the additions of the "Default Group" 
(my blocked buddies) and the "Blocked Buddies" group (yep, two groups 
of the same people...why?!?).

So now, I go about reformatting the groups and buddies, and add in my 
fiance, although I know there are other addresses I've lost forever 
now.  Strangely enough, people and groups I delete just reappear 
after a moment at the bottom of the list.  I try deleting them again, 
they just reappear, so I ignore that, and go about fixing my list. 
Then to test it, I quit Fire and re-run Yahoo Messenger.

No changes.  It's still just as screwed up (and uneditable) as it was before.

I'm scared to death to run ICQ or AIM and see what happens.

So that's where I'm at.  I can't edit my Yahoo list, and at this 
point, I'd really like to know why, and how to go about fixing it. 
Please don't tell me to "just use Fire".  I'm less inclined to trust 
it now than before I tried it, and having these other people float in 
my list refusing to be deleted irks me severely.

Any suggestions appreciated.  Fixes greatly appreciated.

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Victor E Aldridge III                  mailto:simplymtg-/[email protected]
Simply Magic Premier Events            http://www.geocities.com/simplymtg/


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