Okay, after playing around with it a bit, here's what I discovered.

1) The Jabber server appears to be an older version.. or at least running older transports, so avatars do not currently show up nor am I seeing proper status messages. It does work though, and for now, that's all we really need.

Avatars from IM gateways, I mean.

2) Creating Jabber chatrooms *does* work. The problem is that the server we need to use isn't simply conference.jablet.net (which would be the default). Instead, it's conference.jabber.jablet.net. You can enter this in the Account Control Panel. Click on the Advanced button and fill it in on chat server (I believe it's the very top of the list). It should work. Join me on jablet@conference.jabber.jablet.net once you've got it working. (That goes for anyone else that has a Jabber/Google Talk account anywhere.)

Actually, might not have to do that now that the domain's been setup properly.

More as I figure it out.

And yes pixel, that virtual hosting is exactly what I'm hoping to get to eventually.

I was going to up a small temporary page but the permissions on the directory are read-only for members of our group.