How do I turn off automatic staus changes?

I recently purchased a Mac and set up iChat, and on the Instant Messaging program I was using on my PC I was able to set it up so that it wouldn't show me as being idle if I hadn't done anything on my computer for a while, or if I was away longer it wouldn't show me as away. I was wondering if there was a way to do that w/ my mac without having to do move my cursor every so often because I haven't been able to figure it out. Thanks.

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9:05 PM Wednesday; April 23, 2008

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