If in the menu bar in the top left (just after the apple icon) you see the word "Adium" then Adium is the selected application. If it says something else (i.e. Safari, Mail, iTunes, etc.) then that is the "selected application."
The selected Application is the application with the frontmost window, and it dictates what is shown in the menu bar.

Ah. I didn't understand what you meant at first, but that does seem to be the problem. I'm in the habit of having my contact list at the screen edge, and have it set to display above other windows and hide on screen edges, so I rarely have it in front as I just move my mouse to the side to bring up the contact list. That was the problem though. Thanks.

Nice. I like the idea a lot, even though I don't have any contacts that aren't in the eastern US time zone :P. An issue with it though is that it doesn't work for me a lot of the time. I get the noise MacOS makes when something fails when I try it... I got it to work properly once before though, and it will keep the local time, but not allow me to edit it for others.

Looks like I was able to change it without re-approval, so it's in the description now. I'm not sure there is a way to de it easily though as the images for the other were just in the Adium Package contents... so you would need to find a different method for adding the away image than the others. It might be far more complicated than I could manage... and none of the other sets seem to have one.

Yeah. I should have put it in the description. I kind of forgot to add it to the desciption when I made it... then didn't realize how to change it. Anyway, I haven't found any others with the away status, although that's the first thing I looked for.