eion: thanks a heap! Please accept my donation of a few kiwi $$ as a token of gratitude.
hope all goes well with the family.

Per

Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. No crashes since installing the June 17 version and the annoying thing about two Skype sessions opening when you start Adium seems to have disappeared.
Great job, I really like your plugin.

It mostly works great, but ever since Leopard, Adium crashes about half the time on startup when the Skype plugin is installed:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libpurple 0x07e0dfcf purple_blist_add_group + 130
1 libpurple 0x07f1a3b8 purple_ssi_parselist + 2383
2 libpurple 0x07f06626 parsedata + 574
3 libpurple 0x07f07ef2 snachandler + 132
4 libpurple 0x07f0967c parse_snac + 242
5 libpurple 0x07f098f3 parse_flap + 153
6 libpurple 0x07f09c04 flap_connection_recv_cb + 742
7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92c12920 __CFSocketDoCallback + 640
8 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92c13f55 __CFSocketPerformV0 + 133
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92c0960e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 3166
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x92c09cf8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
11 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x91822da4 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
12 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9190d411 RunCurrentEventLoop + 65
13 org.bigbrownchunx.skypeplugin 0x011ddf8a IsSkypeAvailable + 90
14 org.bigbrownchunx.skypeplugin 0x011de0ac ConnectToSkype + 42
15 org.bigbrownchunx.skypeplugin 0x011e0d19 skype_login + 214