IChat picture sending screws up a chat.

The transferring of pictures works fine but after awhile when we are done sending pictures, the other person would be talking but not receiving any response (text) from me and vice versa. The solution is to quit ichat and reopen it. I believe it could be from the direct connection or something. It's pretty annoying when you are saying hello a thousand times to find out its a software issue. Is this a bug that will be fixed or is there some setting that is screwed up? Or perhaps direct me to an appropriate thread.
Thanks
Christopher

Hi Protojunction,
Welcome To The Apple Discussion Pages,
I tend only to see this if I add Buddies on the fly (Using the Add Buddy option in the Buddies menu during a Chat)
It seems to work better if I log out of AIM and back in again to make sure the Buddy is added properly.
I did find it happened to me the other day in a chat.
Yes sending Pics in the Chat does change the Chat in to a Direct Chat and this will close automatically if no more files or pics are sent.
It maybe something the AIM servers do when a chat does not need so much bandwidth. It might be iChat but as it happens to me so infrequently I would tend to think it was the servers saving bandwidth.
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OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
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Build Version: 2
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Code[1]: 0x92c0f0d0
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