Ichat not saving preferences

my iChat is not keeping the prefs the way I set them. I have it set to show the status in the menubar, but it never sticks after a restart.
anyone know what could be going on?

If you set preferences in the account menu, iChat>preferences>accounts,
make sure you have the account you wish to use has the box "log in with this
account automatic" ticked.

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