Hey Codewalker - thanks for the fast response!
Yep, I have to be the only person I know still running XP, LOL!
Forgive my lack of knowledge here, but when you say I can find an old ParagonChat.exe inside of the "Bin directory", where are you referring to exactly? I have looked in the base directory where all the Paragon Chat files are, and can find no ParagonChat.exe file or ParagonChat.exe.old file (I do see a Paragon Chat error bitmap image file).
Unfortunately, when I initially loaded Paragon Chat I did not first set up a directory for it and the files are all scattered in the "my documents/ downloads directory".
Am I looking in the correct place?