cannot open chess applet in yahoo

i am having an issue with yahoo chess ( my fave game and i cannot seem to be able to access the rooms for it.i can pick an actual room like the " rat pack " but it says " please wait while the applet loads (could take 3 minutes) if it does not click here " well it gives me that good ol broken link in the top left hand side of the screen and if i " click here " it just gives me the same thing. I have windows XP SP2 and i have tried everything.defaulting security and privacy in IE, downloading updated Java program,disabling my firewalls and antiviruses. the only thing that has changed is i ran through some tweeking of my XP and after that it seems to not like loading chess.my router has not changed so i don't think that is the issue.but just incase i am going to reset that and try again.i'm at a loss,the only thing left to do is system restore but then i will loss all of my tweeks that took 4 hours to do.I'll hold off on system restore for now only in the hopes that someone will know what i am talking about and more importantly how to fix it.

Thanks for reading this far,

Trevor

[1114 byte] By [tredoucea] at [2007-10-2 10:12:55]
# 1
sorry forgot to mention where and what i did to tweek XP : http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.htmlgreat place to go, really speeds up boot but fuked with my chess!
tredoucea at 2007-7-13 1:35:13 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 2
Dear Sir,I've got a problem of my yahoo chess that I can't open my chess applet. This was suddenly happened in my screen. Please give me an advice further on this matter. Thank you.
dynnaquisen63a at 2007-7-13 1:35:13 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 3
Try to Install some other browsers like firefox or Opera, It may work,
nada at 2007-7-13 1:35:13 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...