i think to most this sounds more like a little cracker trying to cover a question... you lost yoru password for icq? you got a dat file? sounds like you might have stole it from somewhere else...some one else's box... so if you did infact lose your password, i'd say get a new number dude... sorry about that, but telling you how to get your encrypted password out of your own file sounds a bit suspicious to me...try writing down your passwords ina secure place from now on.