Considering the IRC.levelextreme.com server has been down for (it seems) over a week, and has had a poor history of remaining up and usable...
what about pointing the UT's "chat" service to irc.uhacc.org? That's where we've been "chatting" recently, and usually go there when the UT's chat server goes down...
Just a thought, and "note" to folks looking for instant real-time help...
Get a IRC client (like mirc
www.mirc.com) and point it to irc.uhacc.org:6667 and join us.