You don’t mention if you did use 6 or not, but here is some info.

Version 6 changed the filenames assigned to about 25% of the smileys, so if you did install, then just went backwards and didn’t uninstall, you may have some smileys in wrong place for 5.5.

Version 6 also lost some codes, for example, in 5.5, you can post 0 in many smileys as well as o, in 6 its only o. They also removed the – from many smileys, like :* for kiss could have been :-* in 5.5

No, it’s not possible.

Get it direct here: http://download.yahoo.com/dl/installs/ymsgr/ymsgr_1358.exe

Do ensure you backup any emotes/smileys/archives you may have changed and uninstall 6.0 first.

I am seeing Canada and thinking shaw cable?

tools, internet options, connections, “lan settings…”. Untick the bot to automatically detect settings. OK that, then try a profile. Should work.

If you want to know more, read here: http://www.helpbytes.co.uk/profiles.php#unf

It just happens to you, the user doesn’t see it twice.

Do you use Norton at all, there are issues with its ad blocking, it edits or removes the script to remove what it thinks its an ad, its just poor text matching.

I never even saw the “petaphiles” lol, but as my post went, I was more or less saying that.

I wasn’t saying you was anti-chat Jeff, nor disrespecting your opinion.

You get so many people that say chat is just full of paedophiles (spelt right, UK spelling anyway 😉 ) and idiots, and this was not from you, but implied by NeverHappens.

There are many idiots, there are paedophiles. There are idiots in society as a whole, and the same goes for paedophiles, both existed before chat, and will exist even if chat is closed. A parent wouldn’t send a young child alone to a park(??), but they would be happy to let them lose on the internet alone? I am not saying it’s the parent’s fault, obviously not, but like everything, supervision is required!

Things like Yahoo! Chat, well, you get times it works, others not. I’m not saying a room should strictly stick to topic 24/7, but you do get those that just want to destroy a conversation or use a chat room for other purposes. This happens in life too, people try change a conversation, chat has the benefit of a real ignore, they just vanish. There are more idiots daily yes.

Chat specific to a site or subject is probably better, one with fewer rooms and users, its easy in a service like yahoo! for someone who would usually be in a teen room to decide to go cause a fight in the religion room. This is less likely if you’re chatting on a chat applet on a religious website.

It’s the few that can make something with big potential seem bad, like just 1 person can make a service of 100000 users look bad.

Companies pay Yahoo! for the IMVironments because its valuable advertising space. It really is upto Yahoo! who puts the IMVironments there, and if you can break the code, you’re not going to get your custom IMVironment to many users as it not as though its going to appear on the download IMVironment list.