Some things I agree with
(or not as the case may be)
Friday, July 6 MSN Messenger Service -- Help - This details their acknowledgement that the service has been knackered.
However, apparently all contact lists are gonna be restored, and when I logged onto the net on Friday (about 23:20 GMT) MSN logged in fine and showed all my contacts. So they must've already done my account.
Nice ;)
Here's a ZDNet account detailing the outage in better detail than an official article ever would: