Can't reinstall Ichat

iChat was running fine up until the latest Tiger update, then I started getting the "did not respond" error. I uninstalled iChat and reinstalled from the Tiger disk (both directly and using Pacifist). When I try and open iChat I can only get so far into the setup and then it stops responding. I have run Cocktail to try and get rid of any issues with no luck. Should I do a complete reinstall of Tiger?

Hi Jhenny,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Pages
Did you run the relevant Combo Installer to match your OS afterwards ?
Did you Reapir Permissions afterwards ?
Have you run the Cron scripts with Cocktail ?
Does the name for you in the Address Book match the one you are entering in the iChat Set up Pages ?
Ralph

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