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Same for me. I have to sign onto official mac aim (ew) in order to directly connect. iChat doesn't work for it either (isn't reliable).

So you want your available contacts to have a transparent background and your unavailable contacts to have an opaque background? I don't think this is possible. I've tried this myself by going to Appearance prefs, going into your Color Theme, and changing the backgrounds around for different status...

I want to set up my contact list so that available contacts have a 0% opacity (invisible background) and aways have a slightly colored, etc.

Is there any way to do this? It seems the master opacity overrides the individual contact list color scheme tweaking.