[AdmiralGeek]

very strange, is just went and reinstalled the chat box, and the problem is gone.

Align usernames and chats
Select YES if you want the usernames and the chats to be aligned (one column for each)
when this option was cset to yes, you could see that the date, chatbit menu, and chat had its own "colum" and the chatbit menu dropdown had a rough value of 70% of total width.

But now that the bug is gone,
Align usernames and chats
Select YES if you want the usernames and the chats to be aligned (one column for each) does not seem to have the same effect, as in it does not work