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Hi -- this is a rather strange problem: I use iChat to chat with other people through Bonjour. I have a status icon in my menu bar. I noticed recently that I was unable to sign out of Bonjour. I would disconnect through iChat and quit the application, but the status icon in the menu/status bar would still show all my nearby bonjour buddies and wouldn't let me sign off. This was a problem because people would IM me when I didn't want them to, and the only way to prevent it was to turn off my internet connection.
Foolishly, in an effort to eliminate this distraction for the time being I deleted iChat thinking that I could download it again for free from the apple website. Now I still am visible by bonjour buddies but when they try to chat me I get an error message saying that iChat needs my attention. I cannot log off through the status bar and I can still see other bonjour buddies.
1. Is there any way I can reinstall iChat free of charge?
2. How do I "log off" of bonjour chat?

Hi,
Welcome to the  Discussions
1) http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1486891
Do the Easy Way and the COMBO Update listed nearer the bottom.
2) Go to the iChat Menu > Accounts and Log Off the Bonjour entry.
B) Go to the iChat Menu > Preferences > Accounts and Disable the Bonjour one.
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