Font and Photo not displaying messages

When using messages in OS X Mavericks my buddies photo is displayed against the bubble, howevermy photi is not displayed next to my bubble.  I have checked and I do have a photo associated with my account.  Also if I checnge the look and feel of my bubbles by changing the font type the change works for my buddies bubble but no matter what changes I make to my own bubble it always displays in the default font.

Hi,
By Default the image used in Messages is the one associated with the Buddy Lists.
If you have only the iMessages account in use  it will fall back on using the Pic in the My Card in the Contacts list - this is turn is likely to be the pic you chose on creating the Login Pic shown in System Preferences> User and Groups > Your account.
That is  to say that when you set up the Mac or the Mac User Account you chose the Login Pic.
This is then added to the Contacts App as the My Card pic when you add your Name to the details.
That pic is then used as the Default in Messages (including the iMessages account) until such time you change th Buddy List pic.
For this you need to enable at least the Bonjour account in Messages > Preferences > Accounts
Then from the Window Menu you can display the Buddy List(s).  (They can be separated out by the setting in the General Section (of the Preferences) that refers to "showing all Buddy List in one List").
Once there is a  Buddy List Pic then the iMessages account uses this.
The Menu item that seems to refer to change the Pic only refers to Changing it for the Buddy lists - but as a consequence it then uses it for the iMessages account.
FONTS.
The Font is changed in Messages > Preferences> Viewing.
However the background colour has to be taken of Automatic first.
The Background can be any of the options or the item at the bottom of the drop down allows you to alter the colour to anything you want.
THEN you can change the Font and it will stick and not revert to Helvetica.
The Font Text colour can also be changed.
These Details are written to a file called com.apple.ichat.plist
If you have lost the ability to Write to this item then they also will not stick.
Let me know if this is the case and we can pursue that if the other options don't work.
8:25 pm      Saturday; March 29, 2014
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