For anyone in my situation that would like to enable the old notification area until this bug is resolved, I have posted an answer here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/64670/what-happened-with-message-notifications-from-empathy/69385#69385
For anyone in my situation that would like to enable the old notification area until this bug is resolved, I have posted an answer here: http:// askubuntu. com/questions/ 64670/what- happened- with-message- notifications- from-empathy/ 69385#69385