diff -Naur kdenetwork-3.5.8.orig/kopete/protocols/oscar/aim/aimcontact.cpp kdenetwork-3.5.8/kopete/protocols/oscar/aim/aimcontact.cpp
--- kdenetwork-3.5.8.orig/kopete/protocols/oscar/aim/aimcontact.cpp	2007-10-08 11:49:10.000000000 +0200
+++ kdenetwork-3.5.8/kopete/protocols/oscar/aim/aimcontact.cpp	2007-11-21 08:44:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -438,6 +438,9 @@
 	//30- (and any I missed) are size 7
 	s.replace ( QRegExp ( QString::fromLatin1("<font ptsize=\"[^\"]*\">")),QString::fromLatin1("<font size=\"7\">"));
 
+	// strip left over line break
+	s.remove(QRegExp(QString::fromLatin1("<br\b[^>]*>$")));
+
 	s.replace ( QRegExp ( QString::fromLatin1("<br[ /]*>")), QString::fromLatin1("<br>") );
 
 	// strip left over line break