Ok, I found a solution here:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/133/threadid/328309/scope/posts/Default.aspx

QUOTE:

10/18/2009 10:53 PM
        
Ben

A solution! (or at least a work-around)
   

The problem seems to be that the chat message updates received from the server have a prefix code on them that wasn't there before; I'm not sure if this is by design or a bug.  The XML parsers used on other browsers happily ignore this prefix, but MSXML (Internet Explorer's XML parser) doesn't like it. So I tweaked the JavaScript for the Chat module to discard this prefix if present.

To apply this workaround, you need to edit DesktopModules\Chat\DnnChat.js:

    * Go to line 59. The preceeding lines should be:

      function receiveChatMessage(result, context)
      {
          try
          {
         

    * Paste the following:

              // WORKAROUND: MSXML is choking on a lead character that we're getting.
              // So strip off anything before the opening '<'
              while ((result.length > 0) && !(result.charAt(0) == '<')) {
                  result = result.slice(1);
              }

         
I've tested this with IE8 (current), Safari (current), Firefox (recent), and Google Chrome (current).

Hope this helps!

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So, thanks, Ben!

Now the problem is this: While the above workaround got rid of the error message, the chat smilies don't show up in the Safari browser. They're just little boxes wtih question marks on them. A small thing, yes, but something I'd like to fix if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks!

Lissarae7@yahoo.com