I've tried Ramble, Yak-on, google talk, etc. and cannot get AIM to work on my Sprint 8703e.

One question that I have not seen answered on here is this:

I get aim messages forwarded to my phone from AIM's mobile forwarding. I can reply to each and every aim message sent to me; I just cannot initiate the conversation without saving the last message from each person. As I can send these as an SMS, is there a way to bypass IM services altogether and just use AIM via SMS by actually saving the user? The user id is generic, such as 26815, thus I cannot actually save an SMS address.

Yahoo Messenger works just fine. I simply cannot get AIM to work at all.

Thanks.