K's been complaining about the pop-ups and stuff when the IM comes up on startup. I'm not and never been a big IM fan (more interested in getting to the bottom of things than staying on top of things, following Knuth), so she always asks me things like "Is this good?" or "Can I get rid of everything that jumps up when I start up?" and I can only say "I dunno." She uses AIM and Yahoo. You're saying that Gaim would be good?