[Guru]

I am having the same problem. I have about 50 contacts and I have been unable to add contacts for the past few days, whether they are Yahoo contacts or Windows Live contacts. When I add them, I get a message in their window that I need to add them to contacts. Sometimes it says that I need to unblock them even. I'm not sure if any of this is normal behavior. What I know is not normal behavior is the fact that I'm getting an hourglass (mouse icon) whenever I click the link to either add contact to list, or when I try to unblock the contact. In fact, I haven't been able to add any new contacts since this problem first started ocurring.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Messenger, but the same problem keeps happening. I'm starting to wonder if it's a server issue. I think it has to be a registry issue or a server issue, as a reinstall isn't solving the problem, and having the firewalls down doesn't help either.