emesene fail to load friend list in ubuntu

I was always trying to find a stable distribution of MSN in ubuntu. The major problem with pidgin is that it can not receive or send any offline message, it is really really annoying to me. So I tried aMsn back in Ubuntu 7.10 time, it fuctions well but it is not stable. I have no idea if they have any further improvement on the latest version, but it was not a good impression. After upgrading to Hardy Heron, I decided to try something new: emesene.
You can get this by downloading directly from sources. Mine is:

deb http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

As you may notice, I am not even sure which one is the source server, but surely it is from tw.archive.ubuntu.com.

Anyway, after installation, I found I am facing a problem that the friend list was never loaded. That means I can log on my MSN, but my friends list never show up. To solve this problem:

sudo sed -i.bak 's/09607671-1C32-421F-A6A6-CBFAA51AB5F4/CFE80F9D-180F-4399-82AB-413F33A1FA11/g' /usr/share/emesene/emesenelib/XmlTemplates.py

I am not sure what this code does, but it really can solve this problem. I hope this may help. GL!