The same evil memory leak pyicq-t was suffering was also in pyaim-t. Their webpage has not been updated, info can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/py-transports/browse_thread/thread/024a759c12bbf665# Download: http://py-transports.googlegroups.com/web/pyaimt-0.8.0.1.tar.gz
I've retired as a gentoo dev. Reassigning to herd.
Committed with some other fixes.