Chatter & nUI fighting over chat window edit box

[Onk]

Of all things in Chatter, the most useful to me is the chat history available with the up & down arrow keys (it even remembers outbound messages between logons on different characters).

Chatter and nUI seem to fight over the appearance of the chat window - the obvious one being Chatter's default of putting a border & background colour there, plus using its own fonts easy enough to disable these 2.

However, Chatter also offers the option to relocate the edit box (snapped to top/bottom, or floating) and this box seems to get dropped a z-layer when the 2 addons are running together, making it difficult to see what it is you are typing.

On logon nUI resets the edit box settings, so the floating edit box from Chatter can't be used.

Q:
Is there a simple way to prevent nUI trying to relocate the edit box so that the floating edit box feature in Chatter works after relogging?