I've been re-working how Oak saves it's properties file to allow for greater flexibility. On you're next cvs update or if you are updating from version 0.99.14 or older to 0.99.15 please delete the ~/.OakTJB/oak.properties (probabbly c:\windows\.OakTJB\oak.properties on windows) file so that Oak can recreate it in the new format. The old format isn't recognizable to Oak and it won't connect to the IRC server on startup if you use it. This file only stores the irc server to connect to on startup, the identd, nick, and fullname settings so you won't loose much.