IChat Not Connecting With PC

Hello,
I am new to the Mac world (I am SO loving it, right
now!), but I am having some issues with iChat. I
would love to connect to a friend of mine (PC, using
XP) through iChat. She has an AIM account and when
we tried it last night, every time I tried to have a
one way webcam conference with her, whenever she
accepted the invite, she kept getting a message to
the tune of that she has no camera hooked up or
anything. While this was happening, it said on my
machine that it was still waiting for a response from
her. Any suggestions and remedies to this problem
would be great, so I can finally have a one way video
conference! Thanks!
iMac Intel Core Duo 20" Mac OS
X (10.4.6)
I have had lots and lots of trouble using ichat between Macs and PC's. Even though Apple has helped people boot into windows this is one are in which they seem to refuse to help. I love my mac but I also love my grandson and can't chat with him because his dad uses a PC.
Might I suggest a very well designed program that has a Mac and PC version. The basic free version is quite sufficient for most needs. Lightspeed. http://www.sightspeed.com
Works very well for me.

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