Fyi, my primary MSN account is still down after 24 hours, and my other MSN account just went down too.
Just as mentioned in one of the earlier posts, one of the error messages has turned from 81000314 to 81000378 ("You cannot use MSN Messenger at this time because your contact list is not available.")
This seems to be affecting quite a number of people and has nothing to with service availability or the general software problem associated with 81000314.
If anyone hears of a solution and/or news related to this problem, please let us know!