I don't see Chinook Extras on Gronmayer. The only thing I see with the word extras is Maemo Extras and I have that.

Very good news though. This method did end up working for me.

Oddly, I had done what Munk suggested two posts back, but in sort of a one step at a time way.

Like, I installed the accounts pluggin one and then tried to set up Yahoo-didn't work. Then I tried adding the Telepathy-haze one and it still didn't work.
But installing of them both , one right after the other, worked!

But this is where I got lost last night: The install notes in Telepathy-Haze said that it used libpurple0. So, I tried installing that and ended up going crazy trying to add endless dependencies.

( Edit: when I was just now going through my installed apps in app manager, I see that libpurple0 is there! So, apparently just installing the accounts pluggin and the Telepathy -haze pluggins also installed libpurple0)

But it's working for me now.

Thanks guys for the help.

Neil