My name appears in white bold in a buddy's reply

There are 2 buddies that will reply to my posts in either a chat room or privately when the following happens intermittently: at the end of their text chat, my name appears in bold white letters. The buddy didn't put the font there, in fact, didn't even put my name there. They can't see my name in their posts and had no idea I was seeing this.
Do I have super powers I don't know about or is there a setting that is causing this?
I do have "watch for my name in incoming messages" selected in preferences, but they aren't typing my name, so I don't think that's it.
Details:
iChat 5.0
10.6 (happened in 10.5.8)
My background message color is a light blue with black font, and all senders are reformatted to be random background colors and black text.
Thanks

Hi,
I checked my Leopard Boot computer and Chax does not seem to have such a setting.
I have also checked out the Mix Character Case in iChat 5
You find it in Alerts in the iChat Preferences.
ON selecting in the top Drop Down Send or Receive option (or Both) you can select the AppleScript Option and choose Mix Character Sets.
Eample
eVeRy OtHeR ChArAcTeR Is A cApItAl
I might see if I can get it to change colours as I can hardly read it even if using a Bold Font like Arial.
I have yet to discover anything that might cause a a Buddy's ID to be added to an incoming Text.
(It could be they have their Own AppleScript but from what you say this seems unlikely)
In text Chats the person's coming and goings are listed as grey messages in the Chat as are time Stamps.
In iChat 4 and 5 you can use ICQ methods to put your own messages there.
Start a text with /me
This will place an info Message that start with your name.
So /me waves shows as "Ralph Johns waves" (it takes my Name from My Address Book - the Real Name listed in iChat). At the Buddies end they see however I am listed in their Address book or as my Screen Name if I am not in their Address Book.
7:12 PM Sunday; September 20, 2009
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