IChat Freezes My Computer

It first started when someone would transfer me something, like a picture or song, any file. Once I accepted it, my whole computer would slow down to the point where it would just freeze. Now it happens whenever I open iChat. My computer works great otherwise, but if I open iChat everything slows to a freeze and if I do manage to slowly close it down, my computer stays slow, until it recovers. I don't know what to do! Thanks in advance for your help!

For the first time when I started iChat it didn't freeze right away, but once I tried to accept a file transfer, it started slowing my computer down again. This is what I got from the log on the time the file transfer occured:
Jul 30 12:39:10 Macintosh-5 /usr/sbin/spindump[3424]: process 2620 is being monitored
Jul 30 12:39:36 Macintosh-5 mDNSResponder[24]: LNT MakeTCPConnection: bad address/port 192.168.64.1:0
Jul 30 12:39:37 Macintosh-5 mDNSResponder[24]: Legacy NAT Traversal - unmap request failed with error -65549
Jul 30 12:39:42 Macintosh-5 /usr/sbin/spindump[3424]: process 2620 is being force quit
Jul 30 12:39:42 Macintosh-5 /usr/sbin/spindump[3424]: process 2620 is being no longer being monitored
Jul 30 12:39:35 Macintosh-5 com.apple.launchd[69] ([0x0-0x72072].com.apple.iChat[2620]): Exited: Terminated
Jul 30 12:40:16 Macintosh-5 DashboardClient[389]: (com.apple.widget.itunes) file:///Library/Widgets/iTunes.wdgt/iTunes.js: TypeError: Result of expression 'popup.options[myIndex]' [undefined] is not an object. (line: 475)
Jul 30 12:40:18: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jul 30 12:40:16 Macintosh-5 [0x0-0x7007].com.apple.dock[98]: 2009-07-30 12:40:16.648 DashboardClient[389:10b] (com.apple.widget.itunes) file:///Library/Widgets/iTunes.wdgt/iTunes.js: TypeError: Result of expression 'popup.options[myIndex]' [undefined] is not an object. (line: 475)
Jul 30 12:40:16 Macintosh-5 [0x0-0x7007].com.apple.dock[98]: 2009-07-30 12:40:16.899 DashboardClient[389:10b] (com.apple.widget.itunes) file:///Library/Widgets/iTunes.wdgt/iTunes.js: TypeError: Result of expression 'popup.options[myIndex]' [undefined] is not an object. (line: 475)
Jul 30 12:40:31 Macintosh-5 SubmitReport[3436]: missing kCRProblemReportProblemTypeKey
Jul 30 12:40:37 Macintosh-5 /usr/sbin/ocspd[3441]: starting
Jul 30 12:40:37 Macintosh-5 SubmitReport[3436]: Submitted compressed hang report for iChat
This is the last time I see iChat mentioned on the log. Is this good? Or should I paste more?
Thanks so much!

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Once in a while, he can hear me but his microphone shows him that it's not on and it won't go on, and of course, I cannot hear him.
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b specifically
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