Can somebody please help... am I talking to myself here?

Okay, so somehow its working locally (file system) but not on IIS (remote server).  I'll deal with that later.

But how do you add a user to your buddy list?
What function returns the UserID based on a unique name and vice versa?

I tried this:
    Dim myUserName = "MyUniqueName"
    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Dim usrMe As CuteChatUser = ChatApi.GetUser(myUserName)
        lblWelcome.Text = "Welcome, "
        lblWelcome.Text &= usrMe.DisplayName & ". "
        lblWelcome.Text &= vbCr & "UserID: " & usrMe.UserId
    End Sub

If you purchase the web messenger does it come with more documentation?  The current documentation doesn't seem like enough...