Ichat 2.1 won't open after deleting, then reinstalling

Like many before me, I too deleted ichat from my ibook, but only after burning it to disk for possible future use. Now wanting to use an isight webcam on my g3 600mhz laptop, I've tried relentlessly to reinstall with zero success thus far. I've copied ichat 2.1 back onto the ibook, repaired permissions, reinstalled via apple's download site, restarted the computer, and still - nothing!
Would it be necessary for me to go to the Jag disks and install 2.0 instead (providing I can figure out how to do that)? Or is it something else that I'm missing? What happens is that I double click on the icon, there's a flash as if it's going to open, then nothing...
Thanks for any help someone can offer.
Chris

It depends how and what you deleted.
iChat 2(.0) came on the Install disk.
iChat 2.1 is a download normally through Software update.
However there are also factors and updates associated with the OS updates.
So Reinstalling iChat 2.0 from the Install Disk then requires that
1) you allow it to be updated to iChat 2.1 and also re-run the Combo update to maker it match the OS level properly
FAQ on Reinstalling iChat 2
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121859
This requires that you use Pacifist to extract it from the Install Disk.
It is less important in iChat 2.x to run the Combo update to match the OS compared to iChat 3 or 4
9:11 PM Friday; May 23, 2008

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