See...I wouldn't know about current ICQ problems. Since I have given it up, the sky is bluer, food tastes better and my life has a lot less stress
One of the best moves I have ever made.
I do with that there was something else to use. I like Hush Messenger by HushMail. It seems that you need to invite someone to talk and then you turn it on. Anything but the god awful intrusive icq software