AIM makes impossible the connection to Ichat through a dotMac account

Hello,
I have a dotMac account and, some months ago, I configured my Ichat account with this dotMac account and it has been working properly until I change, some days ago, the password of my dotMac account. Since this day, when I try to connect to Ichat I always receive a connection window for AIM which tells me that my name or password is not correct: my dotMac account name appears correctly in the field dedicated to the sign on name but the field dedicated to the sign on password is set to blank. I tried to key in both my new and my old dotMac passwords but the error window still appears.
In Ichat preferences, I cancelled my old account and created a brand new one by using my up to date dotMac settings (name and password). Despite this new Ichat customization, the problem (described above) persists. Note: except the "Bonjour" account and the dotMac account, there is absolutely no entry related to AIM in my current Ichat preferences.
May be, some of you could help to understand and fix this issue.
Sincerely
Christophe
Imac G5 (2GHz PowerPC G5) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

HI Christophe,
.mac lets you have a password that can be longer than the ones allowed by AIM.
AIM passwords have to be 16 characters or less whereas .mac can be 20 or so.
Is this your problem ?
1:31 PM Monday; May 8, 2006

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