help with mIRC

Is anyone in the moot familiar with mIRC, specifically the one in theonering.net? Since I am apparently unable to download ICQ, I thought that I would try this other one in the hopes that some of you might be out there and feel like a chat. Now I cannot seem to make the dratted thing work to save my life and no one at TOR can be bothered to give me any help and I am beginning to feel that it is not worth the bother. Any ideas? I would really like to chat but I seem doomed to be unallowed.