I know a few of the fellow TR members are on another forum I frequent.. It has a shoutbox/chatbox on the main page of the forum.. It would clean up alot of senseless threads, and would allow people to chat without PM's or using an outside instant messenger.. I find it easy to do on the forum Im speaking about. It may be something that you want to look into, if you would like the forum name, send me a PM and I can shoot it your way.

-Mike