IChatAgent using 60-70% of CPU

For anyone whom might read this, my machine has had a consistent problem for the months with the iChatAgent process.
Unlike many, many other posts on this forum I am not getting the 'not responding' error. This process is eating my cpu time for lunch. With iChat open the computer is almost unusable with anything more than a browser open.
Machine is fully patched, with the exception that I am still running XCode 1.5 if thats any help.

HI Jeffery,
I would reinstall iChat and the support folders
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121719
I would install all three parts.
11:57 AM Monday; May 29, 2006

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