Glad to hear phpMyAdmin is working well.
A chat module is definitely on the way:
http://bugs.moodle.com/bug.php?op=show&bugid=16
Trivia: Moodle (between 1999 and 2001) used to have a chat module. It was a Java applet that talked to a server written in C, similar to this: http://dougiamas.com/chat. It wasn't integrated very well, and the server end was definitely not cross-platform, so I dropped it.
The new one will be all PHP and should work everywhere. I'm keen on having features like user pictures next to each comment, searchable logs, and so on. My chat module won't be done until next year, though (unless someone else does one).
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