After doing a review of the chat systems avalable and some pain with PHP:IRC I have installed what seemed to be the better / simpler option.
This is Flash based (because the current builds of Puppy have Flash but not Java), and is well integrated into phpBB, but unfortunately doesn't use the FreeNode servers, but the ICQ ones... This may not be such a bad thing as I have found the FreeNode servers to be quite unreliable as of late.
If we do decide to move the IRC channel to the ICQ servers you'd need to enter the following if you wanted to connect through Chatzilla (Mozilla).
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/server irc.icq.com
Cheers
JohnM