IChat... the most dropped calls since ... who?

Got a problem that has been coming to light slowly... but with regular frequency.
I'll be chatting away with someone and not getting any answers. Yes, some of my friends walk away from me as I'm talking to them...
BUT --
Both from my end and their end I'll loose messages.
It happens on both sides of the conversation. They'll send me a screen shot of them talking away that I never saw... yes, my chat window's open the whole time... and sometimes I'll send them a screen shot of me talking away that they never got.
Can't be normal... but any way to ward this off?
Thanks
CaptM

Hi Captain,
Catching up on older posts.
Sometimes this does happen. I have had it happen in regular Saturday Chat I have.
I find that as I turn my computer off when I am not using it that it pays to run something like MacJanitor or Cocktail and force the Cron scripts now and then.
Something in the things that gets rotated seems to need this.
Losing Stacked icons for other iChat 3 Buddies seems to be an indicator.
As Jan has said dropping files or Pics on the Buddies name can get around some problems with sending them in the Text field of chats.
Sometimes deleting com.apple.AIM.plist can help for a period.
This seems to point to ichat not always getting the right "flag" information back form the AIM servers about capabilities or Buddy list updates as to who is on-line and such.
Sorry for the late check in.
10:32 PM Saturday; March 17, 2007

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