I found this GPL Chat script that I thought may be of interest since we obviously need a good chat solution. And since its GPL we can do what we want with it. Maybe a good candidate for integration into GPLDate02/snoodoo or even for Dolphin. its called the Hablator hers some info from their site. The Hablator

The Hablator is an advanced GPL'ed chat script written in PHP and Javascript. It offers all of the features you could want in a chat script, while maintaining low server requirements, low client requirements, exceptional speed, and simple installation. In addition, The Hablator contains some features not found in any other chat scripts (I am aware of)! If you do not want to read the blog post I wrote, the most notable non-standard chat features include:

Translate chat text to communicate with those who speak other languages.
See when others start and stop typing a message
Upload files easily during discussions
Allow multiple discussion "topics" to let users discuss different things at the same time, and not need to install multiple chat rooms and/or prefix each message with the discussion topic. This allows users to engage in one or more topics, and follow others they are interested in.
Choose whether to use a FlatFile backend, a MySQL backend, or a SQLite backend
Talk to people who don't have Javascript support, or to people with text-only browsers, with compatibility mode

The Hablator is available under the GPL.

I just wanted to share incase it may be of use to anyone or Smoge on a future project.