"Not usable" as in "completely dead"? If so, it might be because AOL recently killed the TOC protocol servers in a political move, breaking several clients, including some that they had written themselves.
You may be interested to know (or indeed, you may already know) that with appropriate setup, you can in fact use AIM from many phones via text-message. Not that I've been racking up the TXT charges this month playing around with stuff like this, or anything...
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Date: 2005-08-30 11:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-30 11:30 pm (UTC)I'll IM you if I ever get this thing to work.
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Date: 2005-08-30 11:55 pm (UTC)AIM express is pretty terrible—I guess you can't get away with installing a real client on the library cluster...
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Date: 2005-08-31 10:10 pm (UTC)Which is good, because it means it's less likely someone's installed BackOrifice or something, but unhelpful in the current circumstance.
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Date: 2005-08-31 03:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-31 05:19 pm (UTC)However, it works just poorly enough that I fought with it for a while entering in screennames.
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Date: 2005-08-31 09:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-31 09:38 pm (UTC)Just as well, really.
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Date: 2005-09-02 02:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-03 11:09 am (UTC)