IChat stops responding when I choose a smiley to insert

When I click on a smiley from the smiley pop-up list, iChat freezes and the SBBOD is displayed for exactly 75 seconds, then the selected smiley is inserted into the text field.
This occurs only the first time I insert a smiley while chatting with a certain buddy, then iChat inserts subsequent smileys without any problem in every chat with that buddy. If I try to insert a smiley in a chat with another buddy I get the 75 seconds freeze again. The whole system is reset when I quit and relaunch iChat (i.e. first time smiley freezes with each buddy again).
console.log and system.log doesn't show any relevant information.
Any ideas?
PowerBook G4 867MHz 12,1" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I think it turned out to be somewhat related to this issue with Internet Sharing.
I stopped IS and the iChat issue has gone.

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