Sorry for the hiatus on NIMS development. We still use it all the time ourselves and it works fine. We just need to get it added as an Adium Xtra again. In the meantime you can grab it from here: http://yootles.com/nims

Thanks xworld21. Over AIM the numbers stay gray as intended. As for emoticons, I prefer to turn those off anyway. But you're right; we'll comment again here when we get those quirks ironed out. Bethany and I find this to be godsend though. It has saved us much grief in the past months!