it's due to this hack, it was organlly so'pose to open MSN if you exit out of it (just like if you go to hotmail to check your e-mail and you see that MSN messenger open right up by your system clock) but since the release of MSN 5, I guess it went to the next best thing which was AIM
I'm still looking for a sloution for how to make it stop loading AIM and load MSN instead, so untell then, you can stop AIM/MSN from loading by removing the following the showthread template and from the getinfo template (yes, it's over there also

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Code:
<object classid="clsid:FB7199AB-79BF-11d2-8D94-0000F875C541" codeType="application/x-oleobject" id="MsgrApp" width="0" height="0"></object>
<object classid="clsid:F3A614DC-ABE0-11d2-A441-00C04F795683" codetype="application/x-oleobject" id="MsgrObj" width="0" height="0" codebase="#Version=2,0,0,83"></object>
it should be after
$footer