My AIM iChat works half the time can this be the issue?

I saw that AIM allows you to use your email as your screen name. My email is through a web hosting site. For example it's like [email protected]
Half the time I open up ichate\, it says I'm online and my status says I'm available with the little green bullet. My buddy collumn has the arrow down, but theres no one under it. It looks almost as if every person is offline. Why is this happening? Can it be my web hosting email screen name thats the problem?
I think I may have ran into this issue even with my old screen name but I can't remember. Any suggestions? It feels like its starting to be the majority of the time it's not working now.
Thanks

Hi
Yes AIM does allow you to register any Email address.
It come about from allowing Apple @Mac.com names and later @Me.com names, as well as several other ISPs email names, to be Valid AIM Screen Names.
If you search for it there is a different Registration Screen for this.
If your Buddy List is set up to Show Groups (View menu) and you only have one Group you will only see one grey bar with the Arrow that can be turned On and Off to Display the list or Not.
If you turn Off Show Groups then there is no grey Bar.
The Grey Bar should have the Name of the Group, what is this please ?
I would also use the View Menu to turn On Show Off line Buddies (I am not sure from your description this sis what you are doing)
If you delete a Group then you lose all the Buddies that were in that Group as well.
If the group you do have is "Recent Buddies" this is a Special Group only held on the AIM servers of people you have had contact with that are not in your Buddy List.
In iChat 4 and 5 you can turn Off the Display of this Group in the iChat Preferences > Accounts.
Next Level.
In iChat > Preferences > Accounts > Security Tab you can set who sees you as On-line.
Check you are not set to Block everyone.
If it is set to Allow Specific People then Buddies need to be in that list (Recent Buddies cannot be in this list)
NOTE:- Some of these settings can be influenced by using the same iChat details in a second (Test) Mac User account and using Parental Controls.
You will only really sort it by taking off the Parental Controls.
Based somewhat on the Note issue a second login can also effect things if it was logged in first.
9:53 PM Monday; October 4, 2010
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