Ichat signs in and immediately disconnects!  Please Help!!

Ever since I wiped my HD and reinstalled, ichat no longer works. It boots up "disconnected" and when I try to select "available" it logs on for a split second and then disconnects giving this error window:
"Lost Connection with AIM
The Connection to the host was unexpectedly lost."
I've double checked my .mac password. My connection is perfect with email, and browser,etc.
I've also thrown out all preferences, nothing changes...
What's going on?? Any ideas?

That would have been part of my next question - "is the IP the Port Forwarding in the modem points to the same as the IP the computer now has and does it list protocols to do so ?"
Devices that port Forwad AND list protocols sometimes have problems with port 5190 needing forwarding on TCP and UDP protocols and moving it in iChat to 443 is our normal recommendation.
443 is below 1024 which means Port Forwarding is not needed - so no more settings in the routing device.
11:10 AM Thursday; August 2, 2007

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