Forewarning to anyone who hasn't tried yet. Aside from the issues with the friends list being wonky there's also the issue of chat.
Now I can chat with two of my friends just fine. Another I can hear fine, but she's recieveing all my messages as if she's offline. In other words, they aren't being delivered to her but to her email. Actually, another of our friends, whom I can sepak with fine is having the same problem trying to talk to her.
I tried to start a friends conference to talk with her and the posts take about a minute to appear, if they'll appear at all. I keep getting a lot of error messages actually with that. The same goes for group chat.
Just thought I'd tell y'all.
*Edit* She relogged and now communications are getting through to her. So if you experience the same, have your supposedly offline friend relog.