I see the same thing occasionally on my W2K, Solaris 8, and FreeBSD boxen. I think the problem is with the cookie and connectivty. I haven't had the time to really look into it. To me it's a minor inconvenience.

I never have to reboot ... simply kill the client and any subsequent DOS window and restart it.

I emailed zzamboni about this, as it seems more to do with the PerlMonk modules versus the chatterbx ( I've seen similar stuff from other PM clients based off of these modules as well ).

HTH
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