Adium offers 1.5rcX updates, but they keep crashing on start up and restarting

So I keep re-installing 1.4.4, which causes me no headache.

Update 2011-12-24:
Still the same problem (incompatibility with the Skype plugin) up until 1.5b8.

Update 2012-02-01:

Still the same problem (incompatibility with the Skype plugin) up until 1.5rc2.