Yeah, I'll probably log into the smogonwifi eventually. :-) I believe mIRC requires a payment eventually, rather than being free, so I've been using Opera. Hopefully it'll work with smogonwifi. I think GoogleChrome might have the app as well. I'm not sure. Actually, I think there's one on Firefox too... Short term memory sucks. I know I used these things a few month back for something, but I've forgotten.
No, the starter won't be shiny. I think, to do a shiny version, I'd really have to RNG a low frame spread onto a SID so that the starter would come out shiny.