Above find a screen shot of issue one.  The top one is the user added programatically (server side C#) and the bottom is the user added through the add contact dialog (javascript).  Found that could still add the user via the dialog and that chat with him worked correctly.  Chat with the programmatically added version opens a conversation but doesn't interact with the user.  In the database the entry contains the following values pertaining to the two contacts : 11=kengelhardt;,16=User:kengelhardt;

Thanks!