Buddies' Icons are lost...

Recently many of the icons in my buddy list have disappeared, being replaced by the generic AIM "running man" (for AIM names) or the blue ".mac globe" (for .mac names).
This only happens on one of my Macs; on my other computer, all icons appear correct, and change when a buddy changes his/her icon.
I've searched for an icon cache or other corrupted prefs, but no luck.
Help please!
thx in advance
MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Hi Jazz Guy,
Welcome To The Apple Discussion Pages.
This is normally due to a faulty Login to AIM.
If Logging Out and the back in again or even restarting iChat does not sort it do this:
Delete com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist form Users/(your account)/Library/Preferences
11:53 PM Thursday; June 15, 2006

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