AIM 6.1.32.1 and iChat (10.4.9)

Hi all,
On the 27th March AIM released AIM 6.1.32.1 as the latest version of AIM.
This works in Audio Only chats and Video chats to 10.4.9
It will send invites that are seen but not connected in 10.4.8
Both for Audio only and Video chats.
It will not connect to 10.3.9 (Panther)
It's Preferences are accessed by pressing F7 (and not F3 for AIM5.9)
It plays a ringing phone sound when making outgoing Audio chats.
It plays no sound when receiving a Video Chat invite (No outgoing sound either) There is no setting to make it make a sound either.
Quality of incoming pic is not as good by some way over ichat but does allow for a bigger initial pic that can be taken up to full screen.
For some reason it can not cope with the PC and Mac guy advert as it can not fit the whole pic in the window no matter what size it is (cuts their upper heads off).
Therefore AIM 5.9 is still the choice for Video chats to Mac OSes below 10.4.9
10:20 PM Monday; April 2, 2007

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