Oooooooooo ... it worked .... at last!  Thank you Skype.

After my long rant the other day, I said to myself this morning, that I must give it another shot.  And wow .... I finally managed to buy SkypeOut credits, all in one shot.

Am still not happy I had to go through Moneybookers though. That is the only choice they gave me unfortunately - no option for direct payment via my credit cards. Has anyone used them ? Experiences ?

Oh well ... we shall see.  I'm just happy to be able to make SkypeOut calls again :) Ethan, James ... has it worked for you yet ?

I've also downloaded the Skype Chat Beta - is exciting potential as an IRC channel - am going to try and test the multiparty chat tonight on a conference call.  Oh - but it maynot work with  Mac - and one of the participants is a Mac user.

Will also be interesting to see how the multiparty chat scales.  More power to social media!