Cannot get past strtup wizard...

I have ichat 3.0 and haven't been able to get past the startup yet....
I have tried a few of the common responses to this:
1. my address-book 'me' data is the same as the data entered into the fields of wizard.
2. no NAT/Firewall issues to speak of... sufficient bandwidth (other chat apps work fine)
3. Regular disk utility permission repair
4. I used app-zapper to completely remove ichatav twice and reinstalled twice
5. I regularly dump the existing .plist files associated with ichat before I vainly attempt to reinstall
6. I've even created a new user and tried to install ichat to no avail.
7. finally, I've gone through the postings pretty thoroughly and haven't found the answer yet.
Thanks in advance for any help. Sorry for the redundancy of the post.
dual 2.5 G5(ppc)_2.5gb   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   isight

Tony-
I had installed the combo update (as opposed to the delta?) when I went from 10.4.7 to 10.4.8. However, I believe that was after I had erased IChat AV. Then I reinstalled IChat from my tiger upgrade dvd. I'm currently re-dwnlding the 10.4.8 combo... should I attempt to reinstall over the existing update?
Thanks for the assistance.

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