IChat Client keeps deleting my jabber password

have Snow Leopard 10.6.5 with all updates applied. I have iChat configured to use the following services (and remember the passwords):
-AIM
-Google Talk
-iChat Server at ichat.rjt.cx
It remembers all my passwords, but for some reason it keeps disconnecting and forgetting the iChat server password, even though it is saved in my keychain. The server log just shows it logging off, and then failing to log back on (invalid credentials). I have tried deleting all my iChat plists in ~/Library/Preferences/ and also deleting my login keychain completely. What can I do? This interrupts conversations when it decides I no longer need to be connected. Thanks

Ralph,
It sound more like the password is not being save 'cos the client thinks it's not correct.
Split DNS: yes very important issue.
In a 'good' world, servers would have public IP addresses and a public domain name. ISP own most of the IPs and with it the Reverse IP records. There is a 'trust' model between ISP that they would not allow a reverse name to be applied to an IP that was not correct. Jabber servers and clients rely on the domain name in this trust model to ensure that servers and clients are talking to the real 'organisation'. Normally the 'domain name' is used in the generation of the cryptographic password that passes from client to server - this helps to ensure that the server that you are talking to is really the server for that domain. OK - problems is, not everyone has a fixed IP and a reverse DNS, so in comes the concept of split DNS; something that seems more common to the Mac Mini server market. With split DNS, you place your server onto a private IP address and use a local DNS server to make the server think it is say server.ralphjohns.com with a private IP address. So the local DNS server serves server.ralphjohns.com to resolve to private IP and the private ip to resolve to server.ralphjohns.com. This is important not just for things like iChat, but for the server itself. On the public side you have server.ralphjohns.com pointing to the public IP address of your 'router' then NAT that to the private IP address.
Bet you wish you never asked.
The reason I often ask people about them using split DNS is that by default, the iChat client is keen on using an authentication mechanism that makes use of the server name - which the iChat server uses as part of the authentication process - which will fail of the clients want to authenticate with server.ralphjohns.com and the server thinks it is not server.ralphjohns.com. I properly configured iChat server is very robust (works via firewalls, etc) and secure (mutual trust).
Like all things - there are ways round this trust process.

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