Copy this folder somewhere then paste it back
For saving the archived messages, copy all the subfolders in the following sub-folder to some place and then paste them back into the new installation of yahoo messenger.
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles
This should solve your problem...
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