Most iChat menu options grayed out

I'm (trying to be) running iChat 4 on my Mini (1.83 Core Duo) with Leopard 10.5.1. I have an AIM account. Almost all menu items are unavailable, greyed out. As follows, these are the only choices i get. (Everything else is grayed out). NONE of the other commands are available. I can't add buddies or send SMSs or squat. I deleted the preferences, but it didn't change anything. What is up?
FILE:
Open
Recent Items
Share a File with Ichat theater
Close Window
EDIT
cut
copy
delete
find
spelling
insert smiley
special characters
VIEW
show buddy pictures
buddy names
sort buddies
messages
BUDDIES
(nothing at all. everything greyed out)
VIDEO
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Screen sharing enabled
FORMAT
show fonts
show colors
WINDOW
minimize
zoom
my user name
my kid's user name
bonjour list
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address book

Hi,
Ryan's FAQ for iChat 3 which should work even for Leopard as at this stage there should be no reason to do the Hard way.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121719&tstart=0
You will need to re-run 10.5.1 if you have updated.
Before you do that though have a look at this FAQ and check you Keychain
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121885
The .plists in Brief.
com.apple.ichat.Subnet.plist holds Blocked Buddies and the Sort Order.
com.apple.ichat.AIM.plist holds whichever AIM or @mac screen name login in details.
com.apple.ichat.plist holds all the other settings such as Balloon colour, Font choices , Sound Alert settings, Saved Status Messages, Menu bar Icon and the like including Bandwidth from Quicktime Streaming.
com.apple.iChatAgent.plist helps to manage the current logged in account/screen name. For some reason the iTunes as Status message format setting is in this one.
com.apple.iChat.Jabber.plist will only be created if you set up a Jabber account.
It does for the Jabber side what com.apple.iChat.AIM.plist does for the "main" Buddy List.
8:47 PM Thursday; December 6, 2007

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