There are too many people with this problem. Noone from development team bothers to answer. I just found one short sentece stating "no problem in 0.10. But the 0.10 source is not awailable (great help than) for people using anything older than KDE 3.4 (blink). .. maybe because it is not compatible ?? KOPETE IS DEAD! Sorry to say that, if I am just kopete's user, not developper.
I have the same problem. So where should I get the 0.10? The source link, as you may have noticed, is not working. And I do not want to update to kde 3.4.