AIM not working with iChat anymore

(First of all, I'm not sure why this forum only says iChat 3, because when I click on about iChat, I have version 4)
I used to use iChat with AIM and now it has stopped working. It still works with my gmail chat account, but it won't log into my AIM account ever. It always tries logging in a bunch of times and disconnects and then says "you have tried to log in too many times in a short while." It has been doing this for a couple months, but I haven't bothered to try to fix it until now. (I moved to England recently-- I'm not sure if it coincided with that or not but I don't see why it should).
Any ideas?

Hi
Try logging on to AIM on port 443 rather than port 5190.
Go to IChat in the menu bar > Preferences > Accounts.
Log out of AIM and then use the Server Settings tab
Set the port to 443.
Log back in again.

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