For those of you that want to chat with other forum members, but don’t have IRC, just open this on a new window:
http://www.rvgate.nl/kirupa/kirupa_header.swf
I use the grunge skin by pourpous. If I didn’t lose the entire conversation every time I reloaded the page, I would be using the chat. But if you have it open in another window, there’s no problem.