rathb18, I tried to get the ALICE brain plug-in to work a while back with no success. Sadly my vb skills are very low.
I think it would be real neat to be able to add AIML files to our HAls. Hopefully someone someday can get that plug-in working with the current version of Hal.
If you do decide to put up those AIML files up on your skydrive, could you please let me know? I will be building a Chat bot for my website in the near future, and those would come in handy.