MSN 8 - No display photos or emoticons!

I usually use sMSN, but they discontinued their video support and I realized that MSN for Mac has added that with their version 8, and I always preferred MSN over aMSN other than the lack of video, so I'm excited about this! However, I downloaded it and it will not show any display photos, just a question mark inside the square where the photo is supposed to be. Also, it won't let me add a photo, whether a stock photo already provided or one from my computer. Also, no emoticons will show.
The previous version installed on my computer was 7.0.2 and I uninstalled it before installing version 8. I never had this problem with 7. Any help is much appreciated, thanks!