>>>>Click on Chat in the top window.
>>>>Click on this link www.mikehelland.com
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>>>>The new window kills your chat session because its forced to be run through the Java interface, now, AFAIK.
>>>>
>>>>THats not acceptable.
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>>>I'm scheduled to do two Wednesday night lectures. I'll cancel if mIRC can't connect.
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>>Mirc is working (18:00 ET).
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>Yeah, I was able to get on earlier today. Thanks Michel!

You're welcome. Basically, a small bug on the IRC server about a password field required me to remove and create the entry for the Z-Default again. This gave access back as a standard IRC server. I tested it 30 minutes today and it seems to work well.