Using Pidgin to connect to Midrange chat

["Buck Calabro" <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Be gentle with me..  The last time I was in a chat room might have
been ten years ago and I used console mode irc to do it.  With David's
recent announcement that there was a chat on the Midrange dot com
server, I thought I'd try it.  I'll be darned if I can figure out how
to configure Pidgin to do it though.

I've tried a user of kc2hiz and midrangedotcom but when asked for a
password, I'm of course unauthorised.

I've been to http://www.midrange.com/chat.htm and my Firefox didn't
understand he XMPP URI.  I added a Windows registry entry to point to
Pidgin but that doesn't help when clicking on the link.  I've also
added an XMPP handler in about:config to no avail.  So I can't get
going just by clicking either.

What am I missing?  Pidgin 2.2.2, Windows XP Pro SP2 behind a DSL NAT
router.  I'm using Pidgin to talk to Google Talk (xmpp), Yahoo IM and
the conference server at jabber.org (xmpp) so I believe my networking
is OK.

  --buck