Apologies... i didn't realise skype had problems. I haven't used it
for over a couple of years now. I used it just as an IM as lots of
folk do. Video conferencing i didn't want and my old windoze PC
couldn't cope with the extra required resources... that's when i fell
out with skype - along with its updates about every other month. The
linux version i tried and that was fine but by then i'd lost contact
with the people and there seemed no point.

To me there are too many IM apps and that after a while is a little
self defeating. Hence why i chose to stick with meebo which copes with
different operators well.