Can send messages but cannot receive

Hello. I am an Apple newbie as I bought an iMac a few weeks ago. I am getting myself acquainted with iChat 4.0.2. I am able to successfully add buddies a variety of different chats (AIM, .mac, and Jabber). However, I am unable to chat. I can successfully SEND IM's and the recipient can see my messages, however, I cannot see the responses. It is quite odd. I was able to successfully do a Video Chat with a buddy of mine who also has a Mac, so that worked fine. It is the usual, run-of-the-mill, chatting which does not work fine. On my end a dialog box opens up, and when I type and hit return, it appears that everything "goes away"....it doesn't even show up in the dialog box. My messages appear to be going nowhere, but they do indeed show up on the receiving end. Most peculiar....if anyone can help me out, that would be great! Thanks much!

ok,
Delete com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist
You have to navigate to this manually in Users/(your account)/Preferences as Spotlight and Find do not look in this folder.
Restart iChat afterwards.
This should reset your iChat/AIM login and sort the issue.
Also check that the outgoing Font choice in iChat > Preferences > Messages is active in the Font Book.
5:02 PM Saturday; May 24, 2008

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