Awesome! My only wish is for a "compact" variant with nicks on the same line as the text, more suitable for IRC chats. Busy channels require more information density.

Xblaze "hangs" the Adium process quite a while when logging in. This is very irritating, because it also prevents the other protocols to log on until it's done (20-30 seconds).

I really agree with this. In 1920x1200 this style become very hard to read becuase of the low contrast...