MSN Messenger 7.5 not singing in. 7.0 works fine

Well, the message to upgrade just got too annoying, so I decided to upgrade
my version to 7.5, I've tried multiple builds (306, 311 and 322) and they all
come up with an error "Signing in to MSN Messenger failed because the service
is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." Error code is 80048883
My housemate can log in fine pver the wireless network using 7.5, and my
7.0.0816 logs in ok too. Just when I try anything of 7.5 upwards.
The login text is slow to update and whether I get it to go through a proxy,
or direct connect, it is still the same. On testing the connection it comes
up with green ticks across the board, and says I am connected to the internet
through a wireless network connection.
I had zonealarm installed, but I tried turning it off, on, getting it to
re-find Messenger and nothing... so it got uninstalled. Multiple reboots....
nothing
I flushed the DNS cache, removed cookies, made sure ssl 2 and 3 are enabled
in ie, and even regeistered the DLLs suggested in other posts. Nothing....
I can always go back to 7 but it really should work, and without a clue as
to what is causing it, its going to continue being a problem unless I try and
sort it.

Any Help/suggestions appreciated.

I have the same problem on one of my pc's yet same download has worked fine
on two others. The problem pc uninstalled 7.5 and reinstall 7.0 to get it
running properly again.

"Matt Jones" <Matt Jones.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B710AF66-DC62-48A7-92F4-1239DFE19945@microsoft.com...
> Well, the message to upgrade just got too annoying, so I decided to
> upgrade
> my version to 7.5, I've tried multiple builds (306, 311 and 322) and they
> all
> come up with an error "Signing in to MSN Messenger failed because the
> service
> is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." Error code is
> 80048883
> My housemate can log in fine pver the wireless network using 7.5, and my
> 7.0.0816 logs in ok too. Just when I try anything of 7.5 upwards.
> The login text is slow to update and whether I get it to go through a
> proxy,
> or direct connect, it is still the same. On testing the connection it
> comes
> up with green ticks across the board, and says I am connected to the
> internet
> through a wireless network connection.
> I had zonealarm installed, but I tried turning it off, on, getting it to
> re-find Messenger and nothing... so it got uninstalled. Multiple
> reboots....
> nothing
> I flushed the DNS cache, removed cookies, made sure ssl 2 and 3 are
> enabled
> in ie, and even regeistered the DLLs suggested in other posts.
> Nothing....
> I can always go back to 7 but it really should work, and without a clue as
> to what is causing it, its going to continue being a problem unless I try
> and
> sort it.
>
> Any Help/suggestions appreciated.