>>Brought mine on Thursday -- was working within a few minutes and has
>>been ever since.

Thanks for the people who responded, know that the system works for some is
usefull, all the forums are full of stressed people like me, with non
working phones. but I am only the stressed people looking for answers go to
the sites in the first place.

I am curious if this is a logging in issue then guessing that those with
working systems have had the skype logged in for days? just wondering if
maybe servers can not cope with more than X amount of connections