How difficult would it be to create a pal locator that loops through all rooms and extracts the usernames of people logged in to see if they match the given name. I realize it would take forever if you tried to loop through every category but most of the time I would imagine that there is just a subset that people are interested in. I would also imagine it not being too hard to exclude rooms under a certain size.
I am mediocre at VB but I would take a pass at it unless somebody can explain what the obstacles are.