Buddies won't display in ONE account only

I have a very strange problem that has just cropped up with iChat AV 3.0.1 on my iMac G4 20" running OS X 10.4.2. I originaly suspected problems arising from a recent archive-and-install I did with Tiger, but I now see that the problem also occurs on my iBook as well, which has been running 10.4.2 without difficulty.
I have been a longtime AOL user, and have used my Buddy List for AOL instant messaging in iChat AV. Everything was fine until about 2 weeks ago, when I noticed that, in iChat AV, none of my buddies were showing up--but only in ONE of my account/screen names. However, if I signed into AOL, the buddies would show up in AOL's buddy list.
What's really weird is: if I have BOTH AOL and iChat AV running, then my buddies will show up in iChat AV. If I then quit out of AOL, my buddies still show up in iChat AV...until I sign off or quit, and then sign on or launch iChat AV...then the buddies no longer appear. (I should clarify that I still see the grayed-out, offline names, it just looks like nobody's signed in). If I then launch AOL and sign on again (this is simultaneously), then all of my buddies magically appear again on the iChat AV side.
I have a couple of other accounts with well-populated buddy lists, and online buddies in those screen names show up without any problem.
To see if this was a problem with my computer, I signed on with my laptop, and get the same problem: no buddies listed as being "online" in iChat AV, unless I also sign on with AOL at the same time, but ONLY with that particular screen name/account.
Any thoughts?

I've answered my own question:
Somehow the preference for Security-->privacy settings had gotten set to "allow specific people". I have never even used that preference before...and had nobody on my "specific people" list, so when I signed on, none of my buddies showed up online. I guess that preference is locally stored, since i wasn't having the problem in AOL.
I figured it out after starting a chat with a friend in iChat AV while being signed on in AOL. I quit AOL in the middle of our chat, since I was IMing in iChat AV anways. As soon as I tried to reply to an IM, though, I got an error that "Your privacy preferences are set so they prevent you from communicating with this person."
That led me to look at the other prefs and...BAM, everything's working again.
Michael

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