ok, now i understand.... thanks Riamus2
that was a pretty good explaination too i might add.. smile

still needs more tweaking tho.... it appears that if i'm on another channel the on quit triggers and i get blank fields.. lol
probaly could be fixed with a if statement like :
if ($chan == %test.chan) { fillstats }

thats just off the top of my head... but anywho

thanks again