I have seen you pop in and out Willie. Perhaps you could use an IRC chat client. I use Firefox's Chatzilla, it's easy and free. I had issues with the web chat gizmo but no problems when using an IRC client.
What is our IRC server/channel?
* Server: irc.rizon.net
* Channel: #fuckcombustion
This page linked below also has a button that says if you have a chat client click here to connect. I think that might do some automatic join thing, not sure.
http://www.fuckcombustion.com/chat/#
Hopefully some of the techies will come by with more info. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about these things but I can say chatzilla works very well, especially when you get it to automatically connect. Good luck!
http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/faq/