Live Messenger (8.x) — two questions!

[gewone]

#1)
Is there any way to get the [old] possibility with the popup box "<e@mail> wants to add you to his/her contact list. Accept/deny?". Nowadays I suddenly just get messages from people I don't know, whom gotten my MSN adress. This, of course, is a bit annoying. If I don't find a way of getting the old MSN 7.5 style back I will consider giving up Live Messenger until this is fixed.

#2)
After my first messpatch I got a little button on the upper MSN buttonbar (main window) which "reseted" the searchstring-á-Winamp-J-button function to "root level". After several new modifications, the button is suddely gone and now I have to either press X and then re-click the MSN in the systray, or press some random letters and then press backspace a couple of times (which feels noobisch and not very cool at all).

Any help/ideas would be appreciated!

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Regards,
G.

[Aval0n]

1) I get that popup box all the time in the new messenger. It's weird that you don't...
2) I cannot answer..