IChat Server - Moving from one Mac OSX 10.5 server to another

Hi
I have found and read several posts about migrating Mac OSX 10.4 iChat to Mac OSX 10.5, but that's not quite what I want to do. I have deployed a new Xserve on our network and have moved/migrated all services from my old Mac OSX 10.5 server to the new unit now, with the exception of iChat.
Does anyone know how I can move all of my existing users/settings across from one server to another? I don't really want to have to recreate all the set-up on the new server and it would be much easier if there was a way of moving the iChat Server from one server to another. iChat seems to install itself in lots of places on 10.5 server and I suppose I'm looking for somebody who can tell me which files/folders need to be moved over to the new unit in order for it to work.
Thanks in advance.
Paul

Paul,
stop the ichat server on both machines using:
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jabber.jabberd.plist
make a backup of /etc/jabberd, /var/jabberd on the target machine
copy the contents of the directories /etc/jabberd and /var/jabberd from the source machine to the destination machine, ensuring that owners and file permissions are maintained.
restart the ichat server on the target machine thus:
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.jabber.jabberd.plist
and it should work. I say should 'cos I have never actually had a reason to do this, but there is no reason I can see that this will not work.
Note that this assumes that the user community (names) on the target machine are the same as the source, certificates if you use them are in the same place and, I guess it should go without saying, but the name of the ichat server and DNS names are the same. Note that DNS must be correct and pointing to the target machine.

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