Thanks. Yeah, the strange thing is when I click on the error tab, I receive a blank screen! So whatever is causing the chat to be blank might also be causing the error screen to be that way too!

I just updated IE, even though I don't use it ... I know some programs do... I had issues with the update last year and removed the updated version, so I'm hoping I haven't added more problems.

I study Greek and still can't figure out if the addy line is telling me anything LOL! I can't find any place to set a port for 8080 (man is that old to me!) I have noticed that the forum site uses one font script (Western xxx and the chat room uses UTF 8 (or whatever it is) if I change my options to the UTF then the forum site doesn't display. Seems to me my computer program should be doing something automatically and it isn't.

Bet this is really a simple issue and I'm totally overboarding it. lol