IChat offline because opens before the wireless network is available -Help?

Question

I have two iMacs they are experiencing the same problem.
I am running them on an 802.11g Linksys wireless WEP network.
I have iChat configured to automatically start and login at boot (I have disabled all of the auto offline settings). I have also tried using Chax and enable the auto reconnect, but that has not solved my problem.
When they boot up the immediately try to open iChat. iChat opens, but immediately goes offline. I am able to manually set it to available and all works fine then. But the annoying part is that it will not automatically login and be available when i boot either iMac.
I think this is because iChat is opening before the iMac is able to establish a connection to my wireless network.
I suspect this because I have a similar issue when running MSN messenger. When MSN messenger auto opens at boot it gives me an immediate error telling me that is is unable to login because the network is not available. Of course, within a few seconds I am able to click on it to manually login and all works fine.
Is there anyway to either (a) delay the opening of iChat a few seconds so that the wireless can be connected? or (b) a way to auto run iChat after it boots using some optional method?
Thanks for any insight you can provide!

Answer 1

Open the Script Editor in the
/Applications/AppleScript/ folder and paste in the
following:
delay 5
tell application "iChat"
run
end tell
Save this script as an application and add it to the
list of login items; remove the existing iChat
application, and increase the delay if needed.
Reordering the list of login items probably won't
delay the ones at the bottom long enough to make a
difference in Mac OS X 10.4; as soon as the launch
command has been sent to one application, it is sent
to the next without waiting for that application to
respond.
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You are correct. Changing the order didnt delay enough to help. I will try the above next.
Thanks