unable to read messages

[Glenn Watson]

hi,
   I'm new to pidgin,it came pre installed on my new Elonex One t+ netbook.I set up and accessed my my MSN messenger account with little drama but, when i log on to MSN at the top of the screen it says i have 256 new messenges and when i try to read them i get a message saying "The 'Manual' browser command has been chosen,but no command has been set".I run pidgin version 2.1.0, my OS is Linux LinOS, can anyone help?
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