My suddenly no longer able to connect with 1.4b problem may have occured around the time I upgraded I.E. 5.0 to 5.5, but I can't be sure.

I have now downloaded and installed the new 1.7 Beta which also necessitated a download of Java 1.3.1.

All is now working well again.

1.7 installed itself into a new folder under Program Files and the old folder with 1.4 still exists. I am not sure if these files are still needed, but since all is working well I will leave it for now.

I cannot seem to find the new Chat features of 1.7.

Have fun..