I tryed to get in the chatroom a couple of times over the past couple of days but all that happens when I click on the link is that I see "JavaChat for WaitingforOblivion" or whatever and all I see is a big, gray box. I'm just wondering if the chatroom isn't working or if I need to download something to run it?

I get that too although I think that is because of my schools firewall, try downloading java: http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp or if you have a firewall make sure that java is allowed.