IChat not logging in with AIM after Leopard upgrade

I just figured out the most crazy problem and I wanted to share it with the community here.
I used the drop in upgrade DVD to upgrade two macbooks and an iMac. Upon upgrading, iChat would not let one of the users sign into AIM anymore. iChat would say: iChat was unable to login to AOL Instant Messenger because your screen name or password was incorrect.
OK but if I went to another computer running iChat on Tiger, where the password was saved... It would log in fine. Same password. However, the same password would not work on the AIM website.
So, I had a client, who was very attached to their AIM username (for years) and they could only log in to AIM on two computers running Tiger where there password was saved. We even went into keychain access, and copied and pasted the password, and voila it was the same password on the computers that worked!
So the solution was, that AIM specifies passwords should be 6-16 characters. And the user's password was 17 characters. So I tried logging in with the first 16, and it worked!
What a relief. Such a silly problem but so satisfying to find the answer. Hope this helps someone.

The 16 character limit is known about.
It is strange it is listed elsewhere as longer and appears to be working.
8:29 PM Sunday; May 10, 2009

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