Leopard and iChat

Whenever I use iChat the video locks up on me. I can no longer send or receive video. The audio continues to work however. I have to force quit iChat to quit the application. The person I am chatting with has a new iMac also with Leopard and it works just fine.
I have done the following things which I found on the discussion forums (in no particular order) none of which has helped:
1. Made sure internet sharing is off
2. Bypassed my Linksys router and went direct to my DSL Modem.
3. Used a video camera instead of the iSight.
4. All updates for the tower have been installed
5. Checked Firewall settings- made sure it was set to allow all
6. Changed streaming settings in Quicktime
7. Changed Firewire ports the camera is on.
8. Disconnected other Firewire devices
The incoming and outgoing video just freezes. It does not matter if any other applications are running or not. Other network items such as Safari continues to work fine.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
David

iChat Freeze:
I just sent my daughter-in-law a brand new Aluminum iMac 2.0 GHz, OS X 10.5.0. When she tried to use iChat (ver. 4) she got the identical iChat freeze failure you and others have described:
About 15 - 30 seconds after establishing a video iChat connection the iChat video freezes and she can no longer send or receive video. The audio continues to work however. She has to force quit iChat to quit the program.
I was convinced it was a Leopard issue until I saw this “iChat Freeze” topic at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1164081&tstart=0
where the same failure sequence happened under OS X 10.4.10 except that instead of freezing iChat (ver 3) generated a connection failure report.
This makes me suspect there may be two problems: a video freeze due to an ISP/router bandwidth limiter issue; and an iChat freeze due to a Leopard bug.
Her current ISP/Router (AT&T/2WIRE) lets her video iChat work okay on her old eMac OS X 10.4.10.
She plans to update to OS X 10.5.1 but we suspect that won’t help.
On the chance her router doesn’t trust her new high-speed Mac, she’ll try reducing the Bandwidth Limits in iChat’s preferences and see if that helps. She’ll also check the Statistics and Error Log in iChat’s Connection Doctor.
In the meantime any leads to fixing the problem would be appreciated.
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