IChat not allowing initiate of multi party video

iChat works for me in almost every case...even iChat to AIM...and even when the remote location is behind 2 NAT routers. It has worked between Tiger and Leopard, between Tiger and PC/AIMver5.9, and other scenarios. However, there is now a problem. I can video chat with user B (Tiger, iMacG5). I can video chat with user C (Leopard, iMac). I can make successful video calls to appleu3test01. I can even initiate multi party video chat with user C and appleu3test01. Typically, connections to user B come up at 1mbps (1000 kbps). I CANNOT initiate a multi party video chat with user B and appleu3test01. The problem is if I call user B first, my iChat will NOT let me add appleu3test01. However, if user B initiates the call, it works....but the video quality is not very good. One note, the video chats with user B typically come up a 400kbps. I have Quicktime set to "1.5mbps T1/LAN". I 've tried iChat set to 500kbps, 1mbps, and none. No other problems (so far) using video chat as initiator or receiver.

P.S.
In addition to my reply about the user B video settings and stacked icons...recall in the original post I noted that user B was able to initiate the multiparty video call just fine, and it worked. This would require him to have the "stacked camera icons", I think. In any case, he did show stacked icons when I initiated the video call, which connected to him just fine as the first participant, but then iChat would balk at my attempt to invite the next participant.
One thing that may be useful is that the message whe I tried to invite the last participant was that the participant was already in a chat...however the last participant's icon was showing as "available" for multiparty conference (ie; stacked icons). Maybe this indication was simply wrong and the last participant may have already been in a chat, especially since that participant was the "appleu3test01" user, which I imagine is very busy
If this is the case, it's just frustrating that iChat would show the user as fully available for multiparty video chat.

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