Thanks for looking into it Giz. By viewable to members, I meant I placed it in the header in such a way that it is only viewable to members who've logged in. Are you saying I didn't need to do that.. that the board already senses the Regged only flag and will display the chat link only to members? Oh well.. it works.
As for the user name issue.. let me revise to say any non-Alpha character (A-Z) as the first character needs special handling. I'm not sure of the breath of allowable characters in users names for UBB (special characters enabled). Looking at my user list, I see I have some usernames on the message board that start with an apostrophe ('), others that start with a dash (-), and many that start with a numeral (0-9).
Thanks
