IChat opens, but nothing appears. What's with it?

I realized a couple of days ago that when I opened my iChat that my buddy list didn't appear or anything else for that matter. The applications was open, as in the iChat was in the top bar, but nothing was there and there were only a limited number of options to choose from in the drop down menus. At the time I blamed it upon a lagging computer. I opened iChat again today and the same ting happened. Does anyone know what is happening?

Hi All,
This tends to be a layered sort of problem with some people finding some fixes work for them whereas other do not.
It can vary from just not being able to login and getting the "Too Many times" message - to the Buddy list appearing but with no Buddies - To there being no Buddy list (And no access to Preferences or the Accounts via the window menu or the iChat Menu)
Starting at the simplest fix other than the Restart mentioned is to delete the com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist for Users/(your account)/Library/Preferences.
If that does not work or you seem to have a higher level of the issue delete com.apple.iChatAgent along with the one above.
In both cases you will need to restart iChat
In the Case of No Buddy List appearing you will need to QUit iChat
Open Activity Monitor (Application/Utilities) and use it to Quit iChatAgent from the list and then delete the two .plist listed above before restarting iChat.
9:23 PM Sunday; February 3, 2008

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