If it's been a week since you logged on, it's going to take a while to update. Some of it is also initializing the program when you first login, I believe; for example, none of the Skype chats have updated for me yet because this computer's been on maybe ten minutes. I expect all of them within the hour though. Bear in mind that Skypes performance is limited by the bandwidth of its users, too, which is why I usually recommend someone with a pretty good connection host the calls. I usually had no trouble hosting as many as nine people on a call in TX (have yet to hit double digits for a conference call, sadly) but some hosts have had trouble with as few as five people.

Nine times out of ten though, at least in my experience, update lags can be fixed by logging into Skype once a day, at least long enough for it update the logs of everything said while you were gone. In other words, it's usually only a problem if you aren't using it much, so it's a minor annoyance at worst, and even that problem can usually be solved simply by logging in frequently. But, yes, if you have a months worth of old chat to download it will take a little while. Personally, I consider it a small price to pay to give everyone the ability to counter "I NEVER said x!" with "here's a cut and paste of where you said precisely that on a the bth at c o'clock; feel free to scroll up if you don't believe me". The original chat does, ultimately, update for me, but I reluctantly agreed with the consensus that after a year plus of use it was simply too clogged to continue. I may have hastened that a bit, however, with the satisfaction I took in being able to "show all messages" and get everything said in there since the moment wotmania and it's chat died before our eyes. ' />