The Paltalk download page now shows that they have been hit by people who won't upgrade from Win98SE - they keep a link to version 9.1 for SE users - but I hope they have also fixed the 'inane download' problem - I got told that I needed a new version to connect - so it was downloaded & installed - then found that it would not work on 98E - so I said "#@&*##$"...

Still no obvious way to get there form Linux - which is this PC at a friend's place, as well as the one I am building up to take over from the Win98SE...

At least things like Yahoo Messenger and compatible systems work on Linux...