IMHO adding AJAX just for the sake of adding it is somewhat pointless but, if you want to implement it somewhere, you could probably break your Shoutbox out of the iFrame and employ some AJAX techniques on that. It seems like the most plausible place to do something like this (at least from what I saw).
hth
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