good effort.
but you might also want to notify people with the biggest con of using pidgin is that it stores your passwords in plaintext.
just go to
$HOME/.purple/accounts.xml (linux)
C:\Users\<username>\.purple\accounts.xml(vista)
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.purple\accounts.xml(xp)
read more about it here:
there are ways to secure your accounts.xml file. google them. 