IChat behaves as if I've never used it before, then doesn't start up.

Whwnever I start iChat 3.1 on my G5 Dual 2 running OS X 10.4.3, the app behaves as if I've never used it before. I have to go throught the entire start-up procedure, which wouldn't be all that bad, but when it's finished with all the info screens, I get a spinning beach ball for several minutes, no buddy list, and an error message when I click on the "window" menu item that says
iChat Internal Error!
NSInternalInconsistencyException:
Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil
and when I click on "continue" the menu drops down. If I select "buddy list" I get the same error message. I have to force quit every time and the choices I made in the set-up procedure don't "take."
I see in other posts that people are having trouble once iChat starts, but I can't even get that far.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Lloyd Lathrop

OK, I think I might have something. I got through the sign-in screens and opened the preferences. When I clicked on the "accounts" tab, there is something that looks like an atom in the "accounts" window on the left, but where it says "Display Name" in the center, my name is there. If I click on the "open" button by "My Address Book Card," nothing happens. I tried to add another account using the same info that should be already there, and I get an error message saying that it is an invalid screen name, but it IS my AIM name. So I tried to set up a new account using another AIM account I have, and it gave me the same error message (Invalid Screen Name). Also, I can click on all the tabs EXCEPT the "messages" one. When I click on that one, I get the error message
"iChat Internal Error!
NSInternalInconsistencyException:
Invalid parameter not satisfying: service!=nil"
My guess is that iChat is not able to talk with Address Book, but I don't know what to do about it. I'm sure there's more going on than that, but I'm lost now.
Thanks,
Lloyd

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