I am confused. I change my status to "away" in Adium, but I still get instant messages from people popping up on my screen.
In aim when you set your status to "away" it hides all of your instant messages until you come back. That way when you're away you aren't bothered by people chatting with you, but when you're available again you can review all the messages you got when you were away.
not that it actually matters, but i think this would be a much better way of doing things. i'd rather come back to my computer with the Adium dock icon or the contacts that have sent messages flashing in the contact list, saying how many messages I have, rather than just showing the window.