Ok, great that GAIM works on the N800 but, could someone please post the
best way to install GAIM , ideally from the applications manager by means of adding a repository which contains GAIM.

In other words, is there a repository that provides GAIM "natively" to the N800 ?

It seems that adding Gaim to the n800 from a 770 repository may not be a very good idea. Is that right?