Messages Beta and problems with Bonjour Chat

Let me start with that I totally understand Messages is in beta but I'm hoping someone will have a suggestion.
In our office we use Bonjour chat extensively for inner-office chat and file sharing. Most of our workstations are still on Snow Leopard few on Leopard and one is on Lion running iChat 6 and 2 MacBooks Pros have the Messages Beta on Lion. The ones with Messages are having sporadic issues with receiving new chat messages. When it does not work, the sender gets the error "The instant messaging connection failed. The other person's computer may be unreachable." This is from iChat to Messages, or Messages to Messages. (Please note, things like iMessage and Google Talk are working fine for these Lion/Messages Beta systems, the issue is isolated to Bonjour chat.)
Now if the person with Messages starts the Bonjour chat to person with iChat it will work fine and then a back and forth chat session will work fine. Message to Message is pretty much broke.
Occasionally I get a firewall access dialogue for "imagent" wanting Firewall access and I always click Allow, but seems to do little help. If I disable the OSX Firewall completely (through the GUI) on any system with Messages and the problem will resolve itself.
As another troubleshoot I tried leaving the Firewall on, Messages on but logged off of Bonjour and have Adium on and logged in into Bonjour and everything works great.
So I can narrow down the issue to Messages, with Bonjour chat and the Firewall. It seems to me Message isn't telling Bonjour to open the right ports.
Any suggestions anyone can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

HI,
Can you double the chances of the engineers seeing this by also reporting your findings here
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html
Messages is in fact iChat+ and Messages is identified as version 6.1
The drop downs for iChat version and OS version have been out of step most of the time since iChat 4 was the main version. Just type the info on Versions in the free text area.
The fact that this Bonjour file Sharing seems to not be on an expected port is a bit concerning.
The original set of Ports are listed here or rather the set for iChat 3 and upwards
At note 2 at the bottom it lists the "Local" ports
Port 5353 is the everyday Bonjour port used by the Finder to find other Bonjour computers or devices.
This leaves port 5197 and 5298 for Texting and File transfers
If it follows the AIM model, the UDP 5298 would seem to be the most likely port File transfers are supposed to be on.
(It is known that A/V chats use the same port whichever Buddy List starts them - 5678 for invites then 16402 for everything else in iChat 4 and above)
Is IMAgent listed in the Firewall ?
(Messages should also be allowed.)
The other thing about the error message is that the port also seems to want to change as part of the process.
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