Hmm given some of the problems he was having involved installing the official AIM client can you tell me if there is a solaris package? Ive don a ton of admin work on Solaris 7-9 and I can tell you that if you think RPM and dependency problems on linux are hell youll just love the solaris package tools.. /sarcasm
I like solaris but after using the x86 versions I think Ill hold off for a bit (talk about limited driver support). Also all the neat features on solaris ten are kinda useless on an intel architecture.