IChat options are all completely greyed out

iChat, for whatever reason, is totally and completely greyed out. The only menu options I can choose are "Show Fonts," "Show Colors," and "Spelling and Grammar" - every other option or sub-option is greyed out. iChat is completely unusable. I tried the following:
Fixing permissions (native)
Fixing permissions (under Safe Boot)
Rebooting (obviously)
Ralph's fix of Force Quitting iChat, blowing away the two plists, then restarting iChat
Looking throughout these forums for a similar problem
I've got nothing except a ton of errors in the Console log which look like these lines:
08/31/2012 11:46:44.723 PM iChat: [Warning] Failed IMDRequestPortAccess: (ipc/send) invalid destination port
08/31/2012 11:46:44.723 PM [0x0-0xccbccb].com.apple.iChat: no name supplied for new mach server
08/31/2012 11:46:44.723 PM iChat: ** Warning: No listener found with port name: (null)
08/31/2012 11:46:44.724 PM iChat: [Warning] Failed to launch and connect to daemon
08/31/2012 11:46:46.699 PM iChat: 23:46:46.698282 com.apple.AVConference: AudioObjectGetPropertyDataSize kAudioDevicePropertyDataSource failed with error 77686f3f 0 sources
08/31/2012 11:46:47.430 PM iChat: [Warning] Failed IMDRequestPortAccess: (ipc/send) invalid destination port
08/31/2012 11:46:47.430 PM iChat: ** Warning: No listener found with port name: (null)
08/31/2012 11:46:47.430 PM iChat: [Warning] Failed to launch and connect to daemon
08/31/2012 11:46:47.430 PM [0x0-0xccbccb].com.apple.iChat: no name supplied for new mach server
And many, many repeats of the lines above. I've been a UNIX user for 25+ years and a Mac user for 24+ years - I'm stumped. I've never seen a Mac program be this completely hosed up. Help!
Thanks in advance.
Dana

Herschel,
Thanks for reporting back on how you resolved the problem.
Regarding "repairing permissions" See Knowlege Base Article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214 Using Disk Utility and fsck to resolve startup issues or perform disk maintenance
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After installing and/or updating an OS
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