Google talk allows me to IM in iChat but not initiate or receive audio

I set up the jabber account as per the instructions here:
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076
Once in iChat, I can IM with other gmailers but the phone icon is greyed out. when my PC using friend tries to call me, he gets the following error message: "you cannot call because [[email protected]] is using chat in gmail or another chat program other than google talk"
So I logged out of all the other iChat accounts. that didn't help.
Logged out of gmail in my internet browser. That didn't help
I downloaded Adium thinking maybe it was just an iChat thing. But Adium does not give me a call button/option either.
I'm in Canada and my friend is in the US. Might this have something to do with it?
I'm sorry if this has been answered before. I tried to find the answer on my own and could not.
Thanks,
Sad and cold in Canda
macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

You currently are not able to initiate audio or video chats with anyone other than iChat users over XMPP/Jabber.
Google Talk uses a variation on the new Jingle standards for audio over XMPP.
When Apple first added audio and video to iChat over XMPP/Jabber there were no standards for doing it so Apple used their own custom method (they do it exactly the same way as when using AIM or Bonjour).
Jingle and Apple's custom method are incompatible, so you will only be able to initiate audio or video with other Mac users using iChat.
All we can do is cross our fingers and hope that Apple will update iChat to comply with standards in a future release (the CEO of Google was recently appointed to the Apple board so hopefully this bodes well for the future).

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