How? - Chat "Participants" list on left of window, not the default right

The one way I have done is to click View --> Hide Chat Participants, then move the window to the far right side of the screen, then click View --> Show Chat Participants. This forces the list to slide out from the left of the window, not the right side.
This works perfectly but does not stay set that way. I was able to do this in the past, but how can I force the chat participants list to always display to the left of the chat window instead of the right?
This is a new issue since moving to a MacBook Pro from a G5, however the G5 was also running iChat 3.1.4 on OS 10.4.6. What gives?

Hi Brent,
iChat will work windows like this.
All types of incomoing invites has specific screen places
Video is top center. Text and Audio is top right of the screen.
No matter what you do to these windows including changing the position and in your case the Participants drawer it will always open a new chat in the same place.
Out going ones are different. With these they will open at the point you last closed one.
The group Text chats also tend to remember which side the drawer was.
I know no way of changing this behaviour.
The defaults for this are held in com.apple.ichat.plist
In theory the App can write to this file and achive and edit.
Property List Editor that come if you install the Developer Tools is supposed to Edit them (.plists) and of course you get some hidden preferences in these files that can be edited by using Terminal like this one.
I have never found the Prpperty List Editor successful.
I don't know enough about Unix to suggest how to command the .plist from Terminal.
The Original .plist will be recreated if you delete the current one if you play with this yourself and have problems. (on the next restart of iChat)
11:30 PM Friday; June 23, 2006

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