Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as if you were complaining SprayTech... just fed up with the problems with the site being up and down for the last 24 hours.
The reason that a member still shows as being in chat is that the login is integrated into our database so that members don't have to login twice... if you don't logout properly (as in shut down your window yourself) and you get jammed up it doesn't log you out, so you still show up as being there... actually the old chat room had that exact problem too... of showing users still logged in when they had left... it is annoying.
Not being able to get back onto the forum really is another issue altogether that has nothing to do with the chat. They are unrelated... we have been having some database problems lately... it could have happened at the same time as you were kicked out of chat... also if our database has gone down you may have problems accessing chat too... but the jamming up would be more of a userplane ad problem I would think.
How wonderful it would be if everything ran smoothly.
Clancy
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.". Will Rogers