i am having trouble connecting to the chat room help anyone

Hi Troysgl, it's a java based chat. Make sure that you have java enabled in your web browser. If you're running Internet Explorer, go up to the Tools menu, click on internet options, on the Security tab, make sure your security level for the internet is set no higher than medium, that will alow java to run. If you're using Netscape Navigator, I'm not familiar with it, but the steps should be somewhat the same. Hope it helps.

how do you get into the chat room? How do you check your messages? please help

Just go to the bottom of the forums it will say chat room click on it and then click yes when they ask and you are there.

There is also a button at the top of the main banner on each page called "CHAT". When you click on this, it will pop open a new window to chat in.