Pidgin: GAIM Login at college

Hello

i have been having problems logging into msn at college, i know what the proxy IP address is, and i am using port 8080 so i can pass off as a website request, and i have also selected that GAIM use http requests (an option that can be ticked)

however when i try to login to msn my contacts do not show, even though the GAIM debug log say's i am connected to the proxy, then to the msn gateway. according to the logs i am connected, but still no contact list.

any ideas or solutions please?