I'm sorry but it seems due to some work reasons, I was and will be away from
any personal computer in a while and can not indulge into finding the error
at hand. Anyways by the time I resume, i guess there will have come many
better versions and the bug will be solved.
Sorry for the delay.
Regard
Well It seems this problem is not solved because initially I had
problems connecting to Yahoo and Gmail in empathy. It just would not
detect that i'd connected the internet using wvdial.
I found a solution to that problem by changing configurations of empathy
in gconf-editor. So Yahoo started work