msn messenger problem?

My advice would be switch to Yahoo Messenger.

http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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What is the error msg. The new MSN Live, once a while it will be down for maintenance. I experienced that 2 night ago. Is your connection to internet established when you are logging in?

Do show the error message to get more useful answers.

LOL i was having that problem too like in the evening but it's working good now!

Have you tryed restarting the computer?

do you have caps on