My programmer fiance, when told about this problem, said that "I believe that it's a user based problem, due to Netscape 3.1 being an older version," and, that "At some point, the ability to turn Java on dissappeared from the copy of the program that we have," he also said that to fix it, we would either have to reload the software, or even more likely, get a newer version that didn't delete such neat features. So, it's all on my side, and absolutely nothing to do with any glitches in the new chat room. Thanks though for replying so quickly to my plea for help. Catfeet