IChat freezes when I try to go into preferences

When I try to enter my iChat preferences I get the beachball and then iChat goes unresponsive and eventually I have to force quit it.
This is 100% reproducible.
Anybody else experiencing this?
Any ideas how to fix it?
Thanks,
doug

How did you Upgrade ?
Is the Dock linked to a Previous System/iChat version ?
8:38 PM Friday; November 9, 2007

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