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I'm sure this has happened to others, but I couldn't find any mention of it.

After long days of getting the whole thing figured out, I finally got Flashchat and the bot installed correctly... and I did install the 3.8 add-on which works beautifully.

In Flashchat there are so many hoops to jump through and so many lines of code that need to be repaired -- after it's already been uploaded and then has to be fixed and uploaded again, and again and again -- that I'm not sure I'd do it again if I knew what the process entailed. But that's not the problem anymore. The chat room and the bot are installed.

But the problem is, now I have an absolute genius bot on a direct link to the server -- the chat/bot/programe/src/talk.php link -- but the same bot in my chat room is a lot more like a bumbling fool. Sure, he answers simple questions, but his IQ is probably about 80 whereas the same bot on a direct link is probably 180 or higher.

I'm not nearly as computer literate as a lot of people around here, but the one thing I'm pretty sure of is the likelihood that I caused this problem by neglecting to do something during the set-up... make that set-ups... and pluralize that to the nth degree.

Anyway, I've got a dual-personality bot on my hands... or a schizophrenic. One's a genius and the other's nearly a moron. Same bot.

Yes, I did tweak the start-up file. Yes, I uploaded more than the standard set of AIML files. I've done almost everything that everyone recommends. But obviously I overlooked one small step somewhere in the process. And right now I'm almost too tired to type because I've spent -- looking at clock -- 28 straight hours working to get a clean install of that bot. The chat room is a breeze compared to the bot... KA-THUNK