Login problem with Ichat

I'm new to Mac. Just bought a new MacBookPro. Setup a new @mac.com account to access Ichat. When I try to logon it says I have no account. But I do and it routes me to change password. I can logon to my @mac.com account on the Apple site.
Is there some kind of delay or is something else wrong that keeps me from getting logged in?

At present @Mac is being moved to @me.com names as part of the process to move to MobileMe rather than .mac.
This has casued some Issues with the AIM servers synching with the Apple ones for both @ amc and @Me names.
The "Fix" at present seems to be to ignore adding the name as an @mac on in iChat and type the whole of the one you have in to the AIM type box
At this point choose AIM and add whole name including suffix
Like this as it were
10:09 PM Friday; July 25, 2008

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