I just bought the N800 as a substitute for my laptop cos i'm tired of lugging it on my biz trips. Just need it to check emails and communicate with my colleagues/kids on MSN & Yahoo Messenger and occasional web surfing.

Web surfing is fine. Its actually decently quick. Email too is fine. But i was surprised that there is no MSN/Yahoo Messenger for the N800. I know there is a 3rd party software on maemo.org called Pidgin but i cant seem to make it work. Can someone pls give me an "idiots guide" to making it work? Really appreciate any help given.