selects every last massage from each user

Help me, please, with one query. I need a querry, that selects every last massage from each user (I wants to create dialogs page for my site).

My tables:

users: id, name, surname; massages id, sender,recipient, text, date

Its my try, but it dont works...

SELECT users.id AS id, users.name AS name, users.surname AS surname, 
        massages.textAS text, massages.date AS date
FROM users, massages 
WHERE massages.id IN (SELECT MAX(id) 
        FROM massages 
        WHERE (massages.recipient=uesrID AND massages.sender=users.id)
            OR  (massages.recipient=uesrs.id AND massages.sender=userID))

P.S. Sorry for my engliish)))