Go To Chat failure in mixed environment - Leopard and Tiger iChat

Hi there.
I've been using iChat on an OS X Tiger machine and using the "Go to chat" feature to communicate with several other people at work. It recently started failing when they all upgraded to Leopard. I am not sure if this is a Leopard issue or what, but since that seemed to be the only common change, it seems a good place to start.
The error I receive when trying to go to chat is:
AIM error:
Couldn’t request chatroom “MyChatRoom”. (An AIM service error occurred. The server message was: Serv:RequestTimeout)
The chatroom name has been changed to protect the innocent.
I've tried changing my port to 443 as some have suggested.
We're all on high speed connections.
Another data point is that around the time they all started upgrading to Leopard, some of us would drop out of the chatroom or become unable to send to chat - even after relogging, restarting, etc.
We can chat with each other one-on-one just fine. It's just the chatroom which seems to be...somewhat broken.
Thanks in advance for any tips here.
-T.

From what you post about trying different things I would delete com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist and restart iChat
2:50 PM Sunday; November 18, 2007

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