Well, I finally dug the plugin out of my Users/Gyffes/Library/Application Support/Adium/Plugins folder and deleted the plugin; Adium now starts up w/out crashing. I tried to remove the skype line from the plist but it wouldn't edit so I tried this and it proved sufficient.
Problem: installed the API and now Adium crashes instantly. I can't leave it up long enough to uninstall the API. suggestions? Where does it reside so I can manually (re)move it?
# by gyffes on 09/07/10 at 13:32:47
It's too bad, I was hopeful for this solution.