Ok, so I bought myself a holiday gift. It's a beaut....big screen, walk around the homestead listening over the wireless net, and generally feeling very happy. But alas-I cannot get into the chat room unless I sit on the hard chair using a circa 1998 Aptiva. Ponderous it is!
I tried the
http://www.irc.starchat.net method, but they told me I was not authorized to view said page. (Hmmmm)
I quite honestly do not know enough about W-XP Pro (with SP2) to begin fidgeting. I have tried turning the firewall on and off (and on and off and.......) with no result. I've not yet installed SpyBot or Ad-Aware, though Norton SystemWorks Premium is installed.
I get the greyish colored square pop onto the screen when I click on "Chat", but it never goes as far as asking me if I want to install the jIRC chat program that "BINGS" me into the room.
Cookie settings seem to be inline.....I just don't know.
I do know my butt is getting calloused on my old, hard school chair and that can't be good.
And when this one gets whipped (the computer prob-not my butt), I've got an iPAC that is also not yet worthy of DeliciousAgonization.
I know, I can still get into chat and do my annoying things-but the current method is a pain in the ass.
Truly, send me some ideas-they will be appreciated.

Obviously, If you understand what I didn't say then we're on the same page...I didn't understand either.