Thanks for the help on items 3/4. However the comments on item 1 are totally absurd, add MORE fluff and glitz to make the NEW fluff and glitz look 'better'? I laugh! The reason many people use mIRC is because it has NOT fallen to the trap that many other IRC clients have. That being trying to look all glitzy and fluffy rather than being plain, clean, simple, and working right! Now I see mIRC is starting down that path as well. The new icons are way crappy. Those colors are totally horrid and besides there was no reason what so ever to change them other than to say "Gee look at the kewl changes we made". Typical stuff you see by lame programmers who have nothing to add but want to look like they did something. If its so easy to cahnge can someone please outline how it is possible and also answer why in the world they were changed in the first place?