Add buddies greyed out

I have just opened a mac account for my mother so that she can use Ichat but everything on the buddies column is greyed out so I can't add myself to it. Her version is 4.02 and mine is 4.05. She has never used ichat before. Could someone tell me what to do please

I having almost the exact same problem. I just bought this macbook to talk to my daughter while she is away at college and ichat isnt working. She doesnt show on my buddylist as available even tho I am talking to her in instant message. Yet she shows up when I go to aol.com. I found where you said to delete that file in my library but am so new to the mac I want to be sure I am not doing the wrong thing. Delete the entire folder or the contents of the folder? And without trying to sound too stupid, how do I delete it? This thing is soooo different from my pc. Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated!

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My own experiments suggest that the central feature affecting the ability to add a bookmark is the outline of the text box that surrounds the text you are trying to make into a bookmark. If it is a ‘dotted text box’ then you will be successful; if it is continuous, you will not.
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IIcannot invite my buddies to video chat. The option is greyed out. I have ichat 6.0.1. What's weird is that I was able to connect to the same users (who all have macs) when I first got my mac six months ago. I have a macbook pro. I am running Lion.

The video icon does not appear next to the users' names, and it is greyed out in the menu screen. What is weird is that I was able to chat with the same buddies successfully in the past? And sporadically, they are able to invite me. But otherwise, it doesn't work. I can't invite them to video chat. They are all mac users with built in cameras, so why won't this work? The video chat option was a huge reason for my getting a mac to keep in touch with my family. Can you help me out?
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So the Bandwidth Limit was set at None and is now set at 500kbps
This should smooth out any variances that high speed interent connections have.
The Speed test results.
The Ping thing is measured in microseconds.
It is the time taken for one single packet of data to get to the server is question and get back info that it got there.
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