Leopard Update: SkypeMenuX seems to work find under Leopard, but the menu icon never changes to reflect your status. I'll take a look at that shortly.

SkypeMenuX

SkypeMenuX provides a System Extra menu for Skype.

This menu allows you to:

• View and change your Skype user status
• Launch or Quit Skype
• See which of your Skype buddies are online
• Start a Voice call or Instant Message to one of your online Skype buddies
• Have Skype and SkypeMenuX launch at startup

See the link to feature requests below if you have a suggestion!

This application is provided free of charge under the New BSD License for the benefit of Skype users. See below for more information.

This product uses the Skype API but is not endorsed or certified by Skype

SkypeMenuX Website	http://mark.aufflick.com/software/skypemenux
Version	0.6b
Requirements	MacOS X 10.3 or later Recent version of Skype
License	BSD (Opensource/Free)
Downloads	sourceforge.net skypemenux downloads
SourceForge Project	Project Homepage Support Requests Feature Requests
VersionTracker	SkypeMenuX Data provided by VersionTracker

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As a note, I also highly recommend making use of the Growl integration built into Skype. See here for more info.