HELP!  Dont know how to bring up my preferences...

Whenever I am on iChat and I go to my preferences under iChat the big window of preferences doesn't come up like it used to. Now a little window called accounts comes up... where it has my aim screenname listed and a button that says Server Options but it is grey and I cant click on it...
What do I do!?!

Hi LaurenL,
Seeing only one of the Preference icons is not that uncommon.
Go to Uers/(your Mac account name)/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.ichat.plist
Restart ichat and you will have all icons back.
Many other apps have a small white button on the right of the top of the toolbar which will hide/reveal the toolbar in full but iChat does not have this on the preferences Toolbar.
12:26 AM Thursday; August 10, 2006

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