IChat won't work in Lion

Trying to fire up iChat in Lion & it won't change my status to Available

Most likely there is a message/dialogue somewhere asking for access to your keychain.
Since Lion is a new 'application' (or iChat to Lion, whatever), the old access right no longer works. Once you have given access to your keychain ('always allow') it should work.
Well...that's how it went on my machine when I had the same problem.

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We are just users like you trying to help others. You can send feedback directly to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
You will not get a response, but you can be certain that the responsible Apple people will see your input for consideration in FaceTime product development.
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Hi,
You can Add an Google Mail ID (@gmail.com or @googlemail.com) as your ID/screen Name in iChat.
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You also have to Enable the Talk option on your Google Account info.
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Alternatives to iChat but Video chatting In a Web Browser
MeBeam. An option to use a Web site that create Private room for Video Chatting. Uses Flash to access your Camera and Mic.
iVideoChat Similar setup but a somewhat corporate type look to the site. Has Public rooms as well. Again uses Flash.
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Tokbox A Site that can link your existing Buddy Lists that Uses Flash to Video chat in a Browser.
From http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/page5.html#_other
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IChat no longer works in Lion

Hey all,
I recently upgraded to Lion and now my iChat is totally dead. I can open the app but its impossible for me to sign in. The buddy list hangs on my screen collapsed and says 'offline'
When I swtich my status to available nothing happens. I deleted the accounts in my iChat prefs and readded them all but it still doesn't work. Any ideas?

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I just upgraded our server to Lion today, and along with a slew of other issues, we can't get iChat working! It worked initially, for about the first ten minutes after the upgrade, but now all I get is the following error message in the server log:
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Oct 28 20:47:18 reactor jabberd/sm[4987]: failed loading module 'disco-publish' to chain 'user-load' (dlopen(/var/jabberd/modules/jabberd2/mod_disco-publish.so, 1): image not found)
Oct 28 20:47:18 reactor jabberd/sm[4987]: failed loading module 'disco-publish' to chain 'user-delete' (dlopen(/var/jabberd/modules/jabberd2/mod_disco-publish.so, 1): image not found)
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