if its not in the database it wont show on your site after afew refreshed...dont panic every webmaster learns to not paninc if your changes dont take effect immediately...IE really really likes to hang on to things
so if your shoutbox is empty in the DB then it's empty...even if you see it for now new users wont
so if your shoutbox is empty in the DB then it's empty...even if you see it for now new users wont