I can't get my iChat to work on my brand new iMac.

I am trying to use my iChat on my brand new iMac intel. It looks like I have an account, but it is disconnected. And I can't seem to connect it...or find any resources online to explain why. Any ideas? Cheers, Erik

Hi,
So in iChat > Preferences > Accounts you list something in addition to the Bonjour Account ?
If you click this account to Highlight and then make sure the account Info tab is the active one - is the "Use this Account" check box ticked ?
What message to you get if it isn't and you tick the box ?
What sort of an account is it ?
It will list AIM whether it is AIM, @mac.com or one from MobileMe.
Pic of Check box
Notes:
Apple allow passwords over 16 characters in registering for a MobileMe account and @mac.com names.
However the AIM servers can only make use of passwords up to 16 characters in length so you may have to shorten it.
In the pic you can see my Screen Name does not have a @something.com (it is a plain AIM name)
However at AIM you can also register Email address as Screen Names
GoogleTalk
If you have a email account with Google you can Enable Talk as an Option of your Google Account page.
This will let you chat in the Google Mail Web page.
You can also use this name in iChat.
However you must enter the name as it appears on any Google page when you are logged in.
So if you are [email protected] it should be entered that way. Same for an @gmail.com ending. (The Mail app does not seem to mind but iChat does - well the Talk server does)
Other Jabber accounts/IDs
Like AIM valid Names you have to have registered from a Jabber ID with a server before you get to enter it in iChat.
With these Jabber accounts the iChat app will presume the server name is the last part after the @ (they look like email addresses)
So in this case if you are [email protected] iChat will extract the aJabberServer.Com to Move to the Servers settings tab info.
(The exception is Google which is also a Jabber server).
Presumably you did this through the Start Up Screens as in these pics
http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/versions/ichatvers4/howtoStartiChat.html (iChat 5 is exactly the same at this point)
If none of this makes any sense or does not match what you remember doing could you detail that as much as possible.
I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link
There are in fact over 360 pages here on iChat.
9:28 PM Wednesday; May 18, 2011
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