No text appears in my chat box... help!

My iChat crashed last night, and when I opened it back up, everything seemed to be working -- I could see my status as available, see who was online, etc, but when I try to chat nothing appears but the thought bubble like when you're typing. I can't see any text from buddies, and I can't see any of my own text. Anybody have any idea what the problem is or how to fix?
thanks !!

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In the View Menu > Messages change the Style to Boxes, Compact or Text (Anything but the default Balloons)
Do you see the messages now ?
If you can try deleting com.apple.iChat.plist from your Home Folder/Library/Preferences and restart iChat
(You will have to reset anything not a default setting that you have made in the iChat Preferences as they will revert to defaults)
Unfortunately you will also lose any Saved Status Messages.
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