>Something is wrong here at my end. I see you with only one diamond and don't see you in the list of online users.

All is ok here.

>Also when I click on the button to refresh messages it opens a new window which I have to close. Using IE8.

This has been discussed before. I think it is related to a setting in the browser which controls that and something that sometimes can be activated by something else. I would check for that at first. There is nothing in the code presently that would do that on an automatic basis.