Fred-

>>Use ICQ accounts, and use Trillian for your IM client. Trillian will let you integrate different instant messaging clients including ICQ, MSN (which I presume you mean by IM) and Yahoo!
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>I just heard today that Yahoo is cutting Trillian (among others) from connecting to their IM. It may have even been on the UT main page.

Yeah, AOL has done that, too, off and on. I think it's an arms race, but I can't say for sure. I don't communicate with anyone via Yahoo.