How to I disable the iChat popup feature?

It's annoying messages pops up, when I'm showing something on my desk, but i still want iChat on.

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It really depends what is popping up where and when it happens.
Incoming Invites to Text, Audio Only or Video Chats plus Screen Sharing Invites will always pop up in "Front" of anything else.(Although tapping the screen (Clicking the mouse on apart of an App) as it were will bring whatever you tap to the "Front" again and possibly hide that Invite)
If you have the Add-on called Chax you can select a window and then tell it to always be in Front.
This includes windows like the Chat windows or in fact the Invites as they are separate windows as far as iChat is concerned, that may not be on show all the time.
Chax also installs Growl.
This can have Notification pop ups that can be turned Off in iChat > Preferences > Chax (It adds another Preferences Pane to iChat.
These can be set for Messages only or Buddy Actions like coming and Going Off line.
Growl also has a System Preferences  pane that can also be set by Application to be Off or On.
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Basically it can be the Action of Growl if you have it anyway.
It may have come with Chax and have setting in iChat as well.
There are not many more instances and they are rare as well so I will not go into them now.(Certain AppleScript actions set against an Action in the iChat Preferences > Alerts.  Some System Wide add-ons that can get info into iChat's Status Message or Icon change).
9:07 PM      Friday; April 22, 2011
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