I founded a chatroom on chanserv and regularly went but then stopped going for a couple of months.

yesterday I went back in but no longer was automatically op-ed.

I tried identifying myself with the chatroom's password but it said that the chatroom is not registered.

When I tried to register the chatroom, it said that I have to be in it and op-ed.

there are a number of people who regularly go and none of them are op-ed.. I still have the password - why can't I identify myself as the founder?

v. grateful if you can fix this.