@michalurban: I am experiencing the same problem.
I'm running on PR 1.2 and I don't like to use pidgin because of phone book integration and automatic start etc. so i use the other one. i set up my icq-account (or better: i imported it from my pre-pr 1.2 time) and first it was blinking as if it were connecting but after i activated and deactivated it it said network error. i had this problem with pr 1.1 too but back then it helped to deactivate the account, then editing the port and using the correct checkboxes, then activating again.

i think it's a problem with pr 1.2

does anyone else know anything maybe?