Actually nowadays it seems the only way to get IM's is to go to the messaging bit of the site.

You have an in box, an outbox and a sent items box there, you just have to select thew right one.

The strange thing I found is that my sent items box has a history of all my IM's back for sges past....interesting!

Annoying having no notification of new messages though, means you have to manually check each time.

Maybe eventually we will get an ebot about IM's, just to add to the clutter in ones e-mail inbox.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."