I can send messages but not receive.

My iChat used to work fine. For some reason, however, now I can send messages that my buddies can read but do not appear in my chat box after I hit send. I can no longer read any messages my buddies send to me. I also cannot see chat room invitations that are sent to me. My Mac store people tell me they can find nothing wrong and it "works fine" when they use it. I thought perhaps it was my user account, but I can use iChat at work and on my husband's iMac with no problems. All the settings seem to be identical. I thought about setting up another AIM account, but my original works fine on the other computers.
Oh, I am able to video chat with my husband. It seems to be only the text chat that does not work.
Any ideas or suggestions?

Hi,
Chats that do Text Chat and then send files or Pics in the chat change it to a Direct IM
This changes the Protocol iChat uses to send and receive data on. (It swaps from port 5190 (Or whatever login port you have set) on TCP to using port 5190 on UDP)
This means you have to have port 5190 open on your router to the UDP protocol.
(Of course it has to be opened in such a way that two computer can use the port and protocol at the same time. (UPnP is method of choice)
Group chats also use port 5190 on UDP
This would seem to be the most likely thing with what you list about the account and the Computer working at a Store (I take it they tested Your iChat Account there ? (testing their own account would prove very little)
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