Hey was just wondering if its just me, but when i try log into an irc channel it says I have illegal characters for my user name. I'm guessing that's the numbers in front. But is this a solvable issue or do I have to just use a different username. (which works if i don't have numbers in front.)

Yeah, you just have to use name without numbers as first character.

There's not really anything we can do about it, it's just due how whole IRC was coded. :P