> > Might you be able to use gaim instead? It works fine for me, and, as a > bonus, you don't have to look at AOL's ad banners. Thank you kindly. I went off and downloaded the tar file and spent a long, long time trying to figure out why ./configure wouldn't configure. I never did solve this. I just did an apt-get install gaim, and now I'm using it. Duh. I'm too stupid to live.