Jack...I added a light background to the site. Brian mentioned that it was a bit bright so this should tone it down just a bit. Let me know if you want me to keep it or go back to the white.
This is actually the first time that I've worked with the vBulletin forum...nice little application. It took awhile for me to figure out how the styles (color scheme) was implemented but once I understood the design structure, things moved along pretty damn good.
The issue that you had with the Chat application...did you get any errors? Try it on Firefox or IE...I think that it might be that AOL browser you're using...