Yeah Adium is great...for chatting. The only thing I find wrong with it is sending/recieving files.
I love Tabs, tabs is the only feature pulling me towards Mozilla and the biggest reson I have seen yet to choose Adium.
And Ed, you gotta get over this AOL-phobia of yours, you're getting all paranoid about it. Mozilla, Chimera, AIM, Adium...your online life would thank you for giving in...