IChat AV works great... and then doesn't!

Hi there!
I recently began iChatting with my mom in the states who just bought a brand new iMac G5 with tiger and built in iSight. I'm musing a regular iSight and we had 2-3 conversations without difficulty. On Christmas day (australia) we were not able to connect Connection Dr states that she "denied" my invitation when she was accepting. When att simple IM texting the message windows "doubled" i.e appearing twice on my monitor and all typed and recieved messages appeared twice. We played with firewall settings both "on" with iChat ports allowed and "off" completely. We both reset, computers, and modems. No joy. Also Safari now won't launch at all (bouncing icon in dock then nothing) And Mail gives me the spinning beach ball of death! Help! I feel like I'm infected with something. Netscape runs just fine, other Life programs work fine.
Any suggestions?

Hi ETex,
Read this FAQ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122021
Repair Permissions after running one of the utilities to make the Cron scripts run.
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