An AIM service error occurred, but where to Log-Out ?

Here's a real basic question, due to be a head-slapping "of course !" ( I hope )
I just got Leopard last Sat, my brother Jim tonight, and he suggested an iChat so he could show me what was different on a big ol' MacPro.
There was a lot that mystified us about iChat on Tiger, let alone it's beefed-up Leopard incarnation, so I looked into it and got enough of the "An AIM service error occurred. Error: Serv:RequestTimeout " that I googled it and found this thread from right here on Apple Discussons : http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:H2ojIfDVIDoJ:discussions.apple.com/thread.js pa%3FthreadID%3D1208110An+AIM+service+error+occurred.+Error:Serv:RequestTimeout&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari
So many flummoxed by the same deal. But here's my problem & where I'm stupidly stuck :
To follow the suggestion & change server-ports, one must log out, but aside from Log-In being greyed out, I can find nowhere *to log out !* !!
It's one a' those really annoying Catch-22's too.
I have to log out to change the server-port, but can I change the port when logged-out ??
And where the *@#% is the log out option ?!
Heh-heh ( help )
( thanks )

Thanks Tony,
This time I went in, clicked in accounts from .mac to MoblieMe ( all I have is .mac and Bonjour . . . no AIM, which I thought I did ! ), but I decided MobileMe was likely not so "stable" and I switched it back to .mac. I checked Server Settings and I wasn't greyed out.
I switched it to 443, pioked around a bit, and now I am greyed out again !
I am also completely confused, if it ain't obvious !
but thanks again !

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