IChat wont open when i click it ?

I just got a macbook and im learning how to use everything, when i first downloaded all the programs onto the macbook ichat asked if i wanted to create an account but i clicked off it, ever since now when i try and click Ichat nothing happends, does anone know why? and how i can fix this?

Hi,
In iChat when you use the Red Button to dismiss a window that is all it does. It does not Quit the application as some other apps do.
If you had set up iChat you would have a Buddy List and going to the Window Menu would have revealed the Keystrokes to bring any Buddy List back to View.
There are no Red Dismiss Buttons on the Start Up Screens
http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/iChatPicsFolder/1%20StartupScreens/index.html
Potentially you do not have a Buddy List either, well not a Jabber or AIM one at least.
The Window Menu and Click and holding the iChat Icon in the Dock should at least reveal the Bonjour account as being Active.
Also as Defcom says you should see the iChat name in the Menu bar.
If the menu bar is there for iChat go to the iChat item > Preferences > Accounts and set up as this Alternative section says
You can choose to Display the Bonjour Buddy list or not (it will have no buddies if you have no other Macs with iChat Active)
5:44 PM Sunday; June 7, 2009
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