freddie's page doesn't use Jirc, uses (or at least used to) phpMychat, am I right?

Anyways I wouldn't have to d owith Java Freddie, since you can't modify a closed applet, I thin the way to go would be to make users authenticate, before they get to the chat (by having a php page that checks the user table from vbb) then, display that authenticated user back, like freddie did.
I believe the concept is the same!