I chat suddenly won't open

Daughter sent me i sight. After plugging it in (and down loading the i sight update) ichat just bounces once and stops. This happens even if I try to open it from my backup on Lacie. At first I got an ichat box that flashed on screen for a split second. Apple care and I ran disk utility repaired permissions and the disk.I've removed preferences. Reinstalled ichat from another computer as well as with Pacifist. The ichat program I installed from another computer works on that computer.
Concurently Firefox installed the 2 update just before this happened?
Apple wants me to do an archive and install. Wish I knew what the problem was before trying to fix it.
iMac flat screen Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi Kevin (or Kathy),
This says there is a Bus error.
I have not come across one of those before.
Seeing that it comes before anything else occurs and iChat Fails I would start with a delete of com.apple.ichat.plist first.
This is found in your Home folder /Library/Preferences
This is the main .plist (there are 4 others)
A Successful start up should look like this
Last login: Sun Nov 26 11:03:20 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Ralph-G4:~ Ralph$ /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat -errorLogLevel 7
201626.631025 Loading hardware rules from hardwarerulesH264-G4.plist
201626.631334 Checking H264 hardware rules
201626.631524 Satisfied rule #2 (15:160x120)
201626.633840 setLocalUserName: Ralph [email protected]
201627.565642 ### NEW STATE: to: VC_INIT, from: VC_INVALID
201627.566315 ### NEW STATE: to: VC_IDLE, from: VC_INIT
201627.566509 ++++++++ confStatusMapRemoveAll
201627.566604 ( ) -- mapUserIDToSecurityInfo cleared --
201627.572821 UPnP init passed
201627.573269 NATTraversal created
201627.573878 Bandwidth based on QT prefs = 1500
201627.632469 BWD: GotBandwidth: 379434/5601158 (up/down) @[192.168.0.6:255.255.255.0]
201627.632573 BWD bandwidth: 379 kbits up, 5601 kbits down.
201627.632597 videoNetworkCapable: 1 -- 3 max participants.
201627.632666 audioNetworkCapable: 1 -- 9 max participants.
201627.640910 UPnP Router Info:
- manufacturer [Netgear]
- friendly name [Netgear DG834 Router]
- model name [ADSL Firewall Router]
- model desc [Netgear DG834 Router]
201627.641677 UPnP: Begin TCPProc
201627.769746 Lock: Util.c:528 waited on Camera.c:3139 for 136.891 ms
201627.770068 vcCapabilities returns: 0x0000003f
201627.770207 VCCapAudio
201627.770263 VCCapVideo
201627.770296 VCCapMultiAudio
201627.770339 VCCapMultiVideo
201627.770443 VCCapMultiAudioHost
201627.770498 VCCapMultiVideoHost
201628.016803 UPnP: TCPProc begin loop
At this point it pauses until you do a Text or other chat/action.
If removing the .plist does not work it will means a Reinstall. See this FAQ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121719
You need to run the Combo Installer afterwards for the OS level you are at. It is the only way to update ichat from the Install disk level to the current OS level.
8:21 PM Sunday; November 26, 2006

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