karen wrote:

> Once again I tried to get into the chat and was booted. After it said
> "loading Java" I got that little colorful circle that tells me I'm sol.
> Crash and Dams have tried to help me on this to no avail. Oh well!

karen, you might want to look into an mac irc client like "Snak". it's
specifically for connecting mac's to irc. there may even be some freeware mac
irc clients floating around. someone around here probably has the answer