okay one more version
i cleaned up the colour fade bit, to now specify the colours it outputs in hex, rather than decimal (i admit i got how to do this from gradier, which i must say has a rather nifty colour preview screen and allows you to graphically pick colours if you dont mind then copying and pasting to msn) - what that basically means is the colour-codes are shorter so you can get more text in
also added a new alias
/xnfade <num colours> <colour> ... <colour> for doing multiple fade within the same text
eg
/xnfade 8 red green blue purple yellow cyan blue red some text
also, if you want to disable the fade mid text type a "ctrl-k" character (if it works you should see the plus colour menu come up) and another one to re-enable it, this is mostly useful for putting smileys inside a colour fade, for example
/xrfade this is a piece of text <ctrl-k>
<ctrl-k> with a smiley inside a colour fade