Besides Trillian - what is there?
 

for a multi-client consolidated messenger system

adium is the best, and it does encrypted chat over all clients. might be os x only..

good question i've been having issues with trillian on and off. seems like it doesn't like MSN today.

I have np with Trillian but they really need to update it more.

I have adium but it won't load at all today on my Mac lap top. Anyone know if something is going on. Please let me kno.

Miranda - like Trillian Lite
 

Check out Miranda - http://www.miranda-im.org/ . It's free, open-source and takes a lot less memory than Trillian's now-bloated ass.

I use Gaim. It never fails me like ICQ did.

I use trillian and don't have any issues with it at all, trillian pro is the way to go.
wish they would do more updates tho