oh my bad, ... it was not turned on, i will try now and see how if it works, thanks for pointing that out to me.   many ppl. not just me are having problems with sending and receiving IM's  usually one can get the text, but not the other.  Any idea on how to fix this problem?  i have the problem when i am using YTK Enhanced  and when i'm on Yahoo w/ out a client, so i'm not sure where the problem comes from