if I download Live Messenger will my existing Messenger contacts work through
Live Messenger. Other words if they do not have Windows Live (only Messenger)
will they appear thru Live Messenger?  Hope you all understand this post.  If
so, Thanks in advance for the help!

I had found a solution on this newsgroup yesterday and cannot find the
posting again.
but there was a genuis who posted a url to a website that had old softwares.
in particular I was able to download msngr 7.5 from the website because i

I recently downloaded Windows Live Messenger, but I have an older version
that seems to be embedded in this Internet Explorer.  I really want to
uninstall it because it keeps signing me in randomly, and I like the other
one better.