Although I don't recall the details, my experience is pretty much what Bill D described in his second paragraph. I think I got pretty close the first time, but it failed, and subsequent tries never got that far. When I try to declare a nickname and password it tells me they are not valid, or something like that.

I have gone so far--as did Bill D, I think--as deleting everything to do with PalTalk, including some that took a lot of looking and consulting with people, then downloading a new set of stuff from PalTalk and reinstalling; no such luck.

Dave Oesterreich