IChat times out

I'm pulling out my hair over this one. iChat has always worked fine since I got my Mac 15 months ago. Suddenly, yesterday, no luck. I am not able to connect to AIM. When I attempt, I get the message: iChat connection alert. Could not connect to AIM. The connection could not be completed because it timed out. Try again.
I've tried to change port setting from 5190 to 443, as suggested in other posts. Tried reinstalling iChat (at the suggestion of Apple tech support). The only other bit of info I have is that yesterday, my ISP (Earthlink) was down for a while. Ever since, iChat doesn't seem to be working. Any advice is appreciated!

If you lost a connection to the Internet whilst logged into iChat then things can get a bit complicated.
The AIM Servers will have set you as Logged out and not On-line.
You iChat settings held in the com.apple.iChat.AIM.plist will have you as Logged in.
When you reconnect to the Internet iChat will try to re-establish the old connection.
Your IP from the ISP may have course changed if you don't have a Static IP from them.
Restarting your computer and then iChat when you are not connected to the Internet then adding the Internet connection back and Logging in again to AIM will normally solve this. (As you indicate in a later post in this thread)
As will deleting the com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist and restarting iChat
10:18 PM Saturday; May 17, 2008

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