i actually come back to this thread after reformatting my computer for something, and then i try this once more. When i was talking to bama it worked quite nicely on AIM, but now it doesn't work at all. When i type something such as そうですか。 A seperate box opens up and the japanese text is inserted into that. Then when i press enter a bunch of question marks end up on the AIM screen. I don't understand what i'm doing wrong, all of my setting are set up according to those two links you gave.