I was hoping for something not based on mIRC but I'll go back to it and see if it fixes the problem. Honestly I think there may be something else going on but I've not found the time to look into yet.
I'm going to format this thing soon and get a second battery but again haven't found the time. I set it up like my desktop PCs and now I'm finding out it wasn't such a good idea...plus I've cluttered my HDD as I finally got broadband at home.