First of all, I have to say: Awesome Work! Can't wait for the final release of phpFreeChat 1.x, since I've been looking for a non-Java, port 80 solution to the chatters on Chat27 that don't have java, or are behind a firewall.
I've played around with the beta, and it's really great. I'm not a programmer of sorts, so I'm finding it difficult to customise the look of the beta version, since the customisation instruction are only for v.0.x , and I'm really looking for that private message function of v.1.x
I really also hope that there will be a IRC module for this soon!