Aol aim on the g4

I have thankfully sold my pc desktop (though a honey of a machine) for an apple g4 15inch (which is loads better). i have no complaints about this awesome machine, however, i have a complaint about a program 'written' for it.
the program is aol instant messenger. it runs fine until i use the track pad, or the scroll button on my mighty mouse. then that program crashes. ichat is stable, however doesn't have the same features. i was wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and how, if you have resolved it.

I was on the same boat as all of you ex-windows guys... I started with AIM, (which AOL hasn't updated for Mac in several years), moved on to iChat (which is awesome, minus a few quibbles), and finally switched to adiumx.
Adium does exactly what I want it to, except send files. Apparently this is a bug they can't fix, but hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Other issues that I deal with (which are minor complaints compared to those I have with AIM and iChat) is Adium sometimes randomly signs me off with a GAIM error alert. Also, when hovering over buddies, to view their away messages, it tends to save old away messages, while not updating them...

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