I'm sick of boring default bland-panted error messages - why not do somehting likwe the paperclip in office. I know we all hate him, but thats becasue its a stupid clip and no one can feel much for a clip.
BUT here's the selling point: ALife Arnie.
Whenever a mirc dialog pops up, have our fav. green person pop up too and offer advice on solving it.
IE
Arnie: "It looks like your trying to connect to a network, and can't . Maybe you should keep doing it just to see what whacky error messages I can come up with! :P"
Give him a bunch of words he can randomly string togehter thatr all say the same sorta thing to get the feel of real dialogue.
Give him moods - if you don't listen to repeated error messages, make him cranky! instead of people swearing at the paperclip, let people be sworn at!
C'mon, it'd be fun! Or at least you could do something else with MS Agents