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Attempt to fix a crash I've seen a few times. I think it happens if you have a conversation window open with a MySpace buddy, then your MySpace account goes offline. We apparently call the prpl's status_text prpl function to get the status text for the buddy, but the connection is offline. I don't know if that's something we SHOULD do or not... but other prpl's seem to handle this, at least. 1. Use buddy->account instead of buddy->account->gc->proto_data->account, since the former should always exist and later doesn't exist if the account is offline. This was leading to a null pointer dereference. 2. Pass FALSE to msim_get_user_from_buddy() so that it will stop creating an MsimUser struct if one doesn't exist. Creating it didn't accomplish anything, and I feel like it might never get freed if the account is already offline. 3. Put the checks for user->headline and user->display_name in a big if condition, so we won't try to grab that info if user is NULL

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