Well,
Vakart mentioned this AGES ago...and I've finally found a shout box for SMF which works. It's taken me a little bit to get it to work with this theme, but unlike the other ones I've tried...messages can actually be posted
You can view it at the bottom of every forum (though I could possibly move it to the top, not sure what people think?)....and you can enter a
chatroom style page. It is on an auto refresh mode, though this apparently will increase server load so we'll just have to see if it makes any difference to the server.
I hope people like it and start sending silly messages to each other...let me know what you think and any problems/suggestions relating to it or anything else on the site!
CHEERS GUYS