MSG Messenger Update Not Working

I'm trying to use MSN messenger for the first time on my new computer but it
gives the error that updates are available and I have to install before
continuing. I've installed 3 times from this prompt and everytime, it
doesn't seem to work. I receive no error messages, but when I try to log in,
the same prompt returns. So I attempted restarting messenger, restarting my
computer. I then went to microsoft's help which didn't help much. I
downloaded an entire update package from Microsoft for Windows XP which was
supposed to contain the update for messenger, restarted the computer on
prompt, and logged into messenger and still received the same error.

Any suggestions?
.

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