Cannot login to .me or .mac accounts on ichat

Hi,
I am using OS X mountain lion 10.7.5. When I recently updated my software, it asked me to install ichat (which I did). My problem is that I cannot login to either .me or .mac accounts to see my contacts. I use the same username and password as the one I used to login in to apple's store and itunes. None of them work. How can I log in to these account to get my contact list? I should mention that I can login to icloud just fine as well as all other apple sites and services except ichat.

Hi,
This thread is iChat and tagged with "iChat".
You mention you have Lion which would be iChat 6 and the Message Beta has run out now.
From there I surmised you were logging your AIM valid Apple IDs into the AIM servers.
Nothing has happened to any or all of your iMessages contacts (Unless you have deleted your Address Book)
However you do now need Mountain Lion to login to the iMessages servers (and the Messages app that does that bit for you).
10:24 PM      Friday; December 21, 2012
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