Since AOL has decided to pack AIM full of junk such as Weatherbug and WildTangent, I've been looking around for a quality "stripper". This application works on AIM 5.5.3599. It removes the add windows and a bunch of other configurable options. It will even DL and install the proper version of AIM. I tested this on a fresh install of XP and a spybot scan turns up nothing after this is installed.
http://aftermath.dyndns.org:8888/~aimadhack/
--TH13
:p
