This has probably been requested, oh I dunno, a zillion times?
Khaled is aware of this feature suggestion, so it's either very far away on his todo list, or he simply doesn't want to implement it. If anything you should be contacting Saturn to ask if he can do an update to his DLL so that it works with mIRC 6.17 instead of the other way round, as that will more than likely give you a quicker solution.
