[Pidgin] #4860: Pidgin creates phantom AIM buddy group

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#4860: Pidgin creates phantom AIM buddy group
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 Reporter:  Samiam303     |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new           |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |    Version:  2.3.1 
 Keywords:                |    Pending:  0     
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 DISCLAIMER: Tried to submit this and got a server load message. Sorry if
 this is a duplicate submission.

 I'm getting a really weird problem which I'm probably going to explain
 badly, but here goes.

 Every time I open Pidgin, an odd group seems to appear at the top of all
 my other groups. It contains generally 5-6 people from my buddy list, all
 AIM buddies, and the title is always identical to one of my existing
 groups. However, as I mouse over the group title, it'll flash from one
 name, to the name of one of my buddies, to someone else's name, and so on.
 When I delete the group manually, a dialog box pops up as though it's
 going to ask me if I really want to delete it, but there's no text
 whatsoever in the box, just a smiling face with a question mark and a
 "cancel" and "remove group" button.

 Every few times I open, I get a message saying my blist.xml is corrupt and
 so on, which  I saw in another ticket was linked to a weird unicode
 character or something.

 When I disable my AIM account, the weird group thing seems to not happen.

 As I said, I'm sure this could have been better explained, so I'll answer
 any questions/upload any files that may help sort this thing out.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4860>
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