My friend says I'm offline when I sign into iChat.

We can still IM each other but her buddy list says I'm offline. I checked to see if I'm invisible and I'm not. Help?

HI,
Mostly this appears to be happening in iChat 6 or Message beta.
In both these versions the default is to have all the Buddy Lists you have display in a combined list.
There is a setting in the App Menu > Preferences > General Section that can be used (unticked) to undo this.
Then it is  a question of checking the Status drop down in each Buddy List to see if 1)  one of them is set to Invisible and 2) that the option to make all Statuses the same is not selected in one of them.
By Default only AIM and Yahoo accounts can be Invisible  (AIM included any name valid as an  AIM Login)
when the "Set Same Status..." is set then even Jabber (Google and FaceBook included) can "appear" to be set to Invisible.
There is anecdotal evidence that in some cases what is set for one Buddy list "Crosses over" to other when it shouldn't.
An example of this is that if you set "Send as I type" in the Bonjour Account in effects the Yahoo account you may have.
Other causes
These mainly include Setting the status via another Login that has not been logged out for some reason or is logged in in such a way that that is it overriding the current login.
8:01 PM      Monday; June 4, 2012
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