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Fix the plugin loading issue Luke had noticed. This is a pretty weird bug that would've affected any new plugins being loaded. This bug remained hidden because we used to load the list of loaded plugins later. So this line, which I think was a typo to begin with, essentially didn't affect anything. Now that we load the preferences early, it was causing the list of loaded plugins to be rewritten at startup.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.