Ichat: can't change my personal account photo

Hi,
No matter how hard I try, I can't change my photo in ichat—the one that appears next to my messages. It remains a gray silhouette.
Is it not supposed to be my account image? I've customized that in system preferences to be a picture of me, but that didn't affect ichat. Other people I know have photos beside their messges, but have no idea how they got there.
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Hi,
Most people have of course come from older OS versions and therefore iChat.
iChat of course has Buddy Lists and you can show these in Messages if you have a Jabber or AIM ID logged in.
IF you don't, go to to the Messages Preferences and Enable the Bonjour account (this also has  Buddy List)
Now go to the Window Menu and use the "Buddies" option (CMD + 1 keystrokes)
You will not have a Buddy list on view.
If it only relates to the Bonjour account it may not have any Buddies if no other Mac is on your LAN (using iChat or Messages with the Bonjour account active).
However the Buddy List should be displaying pic top right.
You can click this and navigate to various options.
Generally by default it will pick the pic from the Contacts app (Address Book in earlier OS versions)  at the My Card which should hold your details.
There is a default for this as well which is System Preferences > User and Groups (Accounts in earlier versions) and your account.
However all three places can be changed independently of the others.
Alternatively you can use the Messages Menu > Change my Picture option
9:32 PM      Thursday; April 18, 2013
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 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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