Y'know, this just sounds like bloatware to me.

Personally if i want to go into chat i'll use netscape or some other standalone chat client.

If you just want a simple, firewall friendly, preconfigured chat client, then just get someone to put up IBMs IRC Chat applet on a web page somewhere.

Like, how about putting a webbrowser that is preconfigured for the BBS into JEmplode? (would actually be trival with Javas built in NET/URL/HTML classes