IChat is not friends with AOL anymore?

I am trying to set up an iMac G3 Indigo 500mhz with iChat. I have recently installed Tiger on it, which is running fine along with the several software pkgs. that I have put on it- Adobe CS, Office, etc.. I can not get iChat to connect to AOL. I have followed all of the the steps Apple provides several times:
How to Start
After getting your account name start iChat. It will lead you through a assistant.
If you launched it before and are starting again make sure iChat is off line.
Go to Preferences in the iChat Menu item. Open the Acounts icon.
Select the type of account it is.
Type in your name (with the @mac.com if required an AIM one does not) and use tab key to enter password.
Server Options key should be live at this point. Check that it reads login.oscar.aol.com and the port is 5090.
Close Server Options and hit enter.
iChat should now log on.
I know that the account works because I use it on othe computers. The error that I get when tryingo connect is this:
Could not connect to AIM
Could not connect to AIM. Try again. The server message was Auth:DbSendError
Any suggestions?

HI Molly,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Pages.
I take it you know that this Mac is too slow in noraml circu=mstance to Video chat ?
IT sounds like port 5190 is blocked somewhere.
Is this an Update from Panther ?
Was the Firewall active in Panther ?
http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/blog.html You need the table at 7th Sept for at least the AIM ports if it is.
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