Cannot Receive/View iChat Text Messages

When I double-click a buddy, it won't open a new chat. When I triple-click a buddy, it opens a blank chat "with no participants," but my buddy will receive my messages. However, I do not receive their replies. My buddies cannot start conversations with me; they do not open new windows, and I cannot view their messages.
I have reinstalled the app twice, and I've deleted everything in the Preferences folder. I've run Software Update several times, so I guess I've got the most recent version of iChat.
I can't say for sure how long this has been going on, but it's been a good while. It's only on my MacBook Pro that this problem exists; I have no problems running iChat on my iMac.
Message was edited by: Gray R

After you re-installed did you install the 10.5.5 combo to bring iChat back up to date.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1055comboupdate .html

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