IChat won't open - bounces in dock but does nothing

I am running Tiger 10.4.11 on a PPC MacBook Pro and iChat 3.1.9
I have never tried to use iChat before, so not only has the app not been tested on my machine, I know very little about it.
When I try to open it from the applications folder, it bounces in the dock a couple times and then disappears - no error, just doesn't open. After doing a search in the forums for similar problems and trying the suggestions found with no luck. I opened a console app and got the following console.log when attempting to open iChat:
Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
2009-06-22 15:43:26 -0500
2009-06-22 15:43:26.627 loginwindow[606] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
2009-06-22 15:43:28.883 SystemUIServer[630] lang is:en
Jun 22 15:43:37 PowerBook mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Jun 22 15:43:38 PowerBook mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Jun 22 15:43:38 PowerBook mDNSResponder: ReceivePortMapReply: response too short (12 bytes)
Jun 22 15:43:39 PowerBook mDNSResponder: NAT Port Mapping (LLQ event port.): timeout
Debugger() was called!
2009-06-22 15:46:12.156 iChat[664] Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting
anyone have any suggestions?

Great ground work so far Bill!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Tiger Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
See if we still get the can't load nib file one.

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