OK, it finally connected and I saw my buddy list for about 10 seconds before it got disconnected. It then said in Chinese something about ID theft measurement and it disconnected me. then it gave me 2 choices, modify account or reenable. I clicked reenable and it gave me one of those QQ captcha images to verify that it was a person. I put it in and still couldnt reconnect. then i tried to sign in on my desktop and it said that i had to change my password to activate my account since some suspicious activity had been detected. it appears that China Unicom and QQ have some kind of agreement where users can not connect unless they're using QQ's proprietary mobile software???